[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Venting
Chris Maden wrote: > > [Sean McGrath] > > Maybe I've missed something and someone can provide a pointer, but I > > have not heard any noises from Microsoft about implementing FO's in > > XSL in IE. My impression from Microsoft's stuff is that they see XSL > > as a way of generating HTML - a transformation language only. > > To me, this is an argument for keeping the specs together. I don't > want a browser that doesn't implement FOs to be able to claim XSL > compliance. (Given various browsers' track records, that probably > won't stop them. Does anyone remember "HTML 3.0 compatible!"?) Nobody is proposing that a transformation language based on the first part of the XSL specification should be called "XSL". It's a strawperson. XSL would be the combination of the transformation language and the formatting object language. -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels." --Faith Whittlesey XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
|
PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced! Download The World's Best XML IDE!Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today! Subscribe in XML format
|