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RE: XSLT vs. CSS (Re: Indexing)

• To: "'Thomas B. Passin'" <tpassin@c...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: XSLT vs. CSS (Re: Indexing)
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 08:42:22 -0500

Is this an HTML-only debate? Not all XML document 
languages use CSS, for example, rendering languages 
such as X3D.  Given an XML source such as the Chemical 
Markup Language, XSLT to X3D is an excellent choice.

http://www.3dez.net/X3D/CML/

It isn't either/or.  I would expect to see more XSLT 
in examples like CML where there is a high level XML 
language source.  For a behavioral system like X3D, 
building up XSLT libraries is essential.  CSS adds 
no value to that.

len

From: Thomas B. Passin [mailto:tpassin@c...]

This whole discussion seems completely irrelevant to me.  Say you were to
author (by hand) a document to be displayed.  It is either an html document,
or an xml one that is destined to be converted into an html document by an
xslt transformation.  YOU get to decide how to style the document.  You can
lay out the page using tables for formatting, or you can use CSS.  You can
specify fonts inside elements using CSS or <font> elements, or in a separate
CSS stylesheet.  And so on and so on.

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