Re: Why Core Flow Objects

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Subject: Re: Why Core Flow Objects
From: James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 06:48:07 +0100

The second should create a document that started something like:

&lt;HTML>
&lt;HEAD>
&lt;TITLE>Something</TITLE>
&lt;/HEAD>
&lt;BODY  bgcolor="#FC9A27" link="#000000" vlink="#9F0000">

Markup in an action that represents a character should create markup in
the output that represents a character.

James

Francois Belanger wrote:
> 
> I'm looking at different parsers and stylesheet and see constantly the
> need for Core Flow Objects.
> 
> I'd like to understand (and could not find the answer in XSL spec) why
> such as thing is needed. I see it as a barrier to adoption more than
> anything else as one has to wait for Core Flow Object to be available and
> supported by a parser to generate different file formats from XML.
> 
> In other words, what's the difference between those two rules (the second
> probaly being faster and simpler to parse and also does not need to
> contain XML-compliant HTML):
> 
> <rule>
>   <HTML>
>   <HEAD>
>   <TITLE>Something</TITLE>
>   </HEAD>
>   <BODY  bgcolor="#FC9A27" link="#000000" vlink="#9F0000">
>     <children/>
>   <IMG src="logo.gif" />
> <P><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="2">Legal stuff.</FONT></P>
>   </BODY>
>   </HTML>
> </rule>
> 
> <rule>
>   <root/>
> <![CDATA[
>   <HTML>
>   <HEAD>
>   <TITLE>Something</TITLE>
>   </HEAD>
>   <BODY  bgcolor="#FC9A27" link="#000000" vlink="#9F0000">
> ]]>
>     <children/>
> <![CDATA[
> <P><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="2">Legal stuff.</FONT></P>
>   <IMG src="logo.gif">
>   </BODY>
>   </HTML>
> ]]>
> </rule>
> 
> If the second rule is valid (I think it is), then one can create any kind
> of output using CDATA sections and do away with Core Flow Objects.
> 
> Is this a good approach? Or is it the equivalent of the one-pixel GIF
> hack in HTML and defeats the purpose of XSL?



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Why Core Flow Objects
- Francois Belanger - Thu, 9 Apr 1998 09:32:57 -0400 (EDT)
  - Paul Prescod - Thu, 9 Apr 1998 14:44:19 -0400 (EDT)
  - James Clark - Fri, 10 Apr 1998 03:10:42 -0400 (EDT) <=
  - Michel Goossens - Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:01:40 -0400 (EDT)
    - Norman Walsh - Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:40:15 -0400 (EDT)
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  - Frank Boumphrey - Thu, 9 Apr 1998 10:07:23 -0400 (EDT)
  - Francois Belanger - Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:39:23 -0400 (EDT)

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