Re: FO. lists as tables. Re: Q: XML+XSL transforms to a prin

On Sat, 16 Oct 1999 13:33:20 +0200 (Europe de l'Ouest (Heure d'été)),
you wrote:

>Your FUD-factor is high, could you explain your position a bit more?
>Until someone is able to change my mind, I consider the 'font'
>property a neat way of setting several properties at once.

I think Sebastian covered it well. Shortcut properties are in XSL
simply for compatibility with CSS. There is no real justification for
their inclusion on XML/XSL grounds, and they conflict with the design
goals of XML (see the XML rec, section 1.1, points 4, 5 and 10). They
make more work for the parser without adding any significant value.

-Steve Schafer


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