Re: Venting

Simon Wrote:
>I'm exceedingly disappointed by much of that XSL seems to be doing and
>redoing, but complaining about it in an unsympathetic forum isn't going to
>achieve very much.
>
>Have fun, y'all.  I'll play with your transformations, and use the
>formatting objects only as much as I have to when I'm writing a tutorial.

perhaps us Authors are of a similar mind. I have gone form being a big fan
of XSL to the status of 'just keeping up with it because I have to'

I to play with transformations, but I use the DOM for most of this.

Quite frankly I see DSSSL as a powerful style language already in place for
'dead tree' publishing, and CSS as a viable, living language for the
Internet.

XSL seems to fall in the twilight region inbetween.

Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 1999 9:08 PM
Subject: RE: Venting


>At 08:17 PM 2/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>Simon -
>>
>>Are you trying to provoke? I think you should sit back and give your head
>a shake.
>>
>>We're all here, more or less, because this technology allows us to call
>things what they *are*.
>>
>>A 'margin note' is a margin note not 'linked content'. A person's needs
>are a person's needs. Let it be.
>
>No problem; go back to your work, and have a great time.
>
>I'm exceedingly disappointed by much of that XSL seems to be doing and
>redoing, but complaining about it in an unsympathetic forum isn't going to
>achieve very much.
>
>Have fun, y'all.  I'll play with your transformations, and use the
>formatting objects only as much as I have to when I'm writing a tutorial.
>
>Simon St.Laurent
>XML: A Primer / Building XML Applications (April)
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>http://www.simonstl.com
>
>
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