Subject: Re: Why Core Flow Objects
From: James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 06:48:07 +0100
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The second should create a document that started something like:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Something</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<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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