Re: CSS + behavior vs. XSL (was: EcmaScript, gone?)

Paul Prescod wrote:

> Well, CSS+DOM can probably do anything that needs to be done. In fact, the
> DOM alone can probably do anything that needs to be done. The problem is
> that the more of your information system you build into "scripts" or other
> proprietary, ad hoc code, the less robust it is and the less reusable your
> information is. So our goal ist build layers of "declarativeness" that
> progressively relegate scripting to the margins. We work to replace ad
> hocness with agreed-upon standards. XSL is one more layer of
> declarativeness. After two or three years, we will look again to see what
> people are using the DOM and scripts to do and ask what can be encoded
> declaratively and push scripting back into the margins.

Well, this long run program (where was the web three years ago ?) still
depends on the will of W3C members. We have implementable solutions
*now* on a very low-cost base and I wonder why we should invest 4 years
of standardization for quite the same result...

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