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On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 10:16, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > That would suggest that the problem today is not > technical or political, but a matter of education. > There simply are XML languages for which CSS is > not useful or available. There are applications > of CSS which are simpler and more elegant. Without > discrimination, one will stumble. > But there is also one big application -- documents on the web, for which good CSS support would be a major improvement. While there is no _technical_ problem with using two stylesheets, it is a cost. Like Simon, I largely deal with documents that are basically human readable as created. Except for the TOC and indexes (and indexes tend to be replaced by links and searches anyway), they merely need to be prettyprinted. Without support for generated text and counters my clients have to have two stylesheets rather than one. I would bet that half the XSLT I deal with would go away with those two enhancements. Further, half the remainder would also go away: There's lots of other code in the applications that could transform (or create right the first time) the XML for CSS styling, if we didn't have to have the XSLT anyway. I accept that for most xml developers it's not a big problem. They seem to mostly be moving information between computers. For those applications which have a human at the beginning and the end, it's a pain in the neck and a pain in the wallet. Frank
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