RE: About the style processing instruction

Hi Chris,

<YourComment>
Didier proposed that stylesheet-association processing instructions
should include media rules.
</YourComment>

<Reply>
I agree, this adds more versatility but we should also have the possibility
to set multiple separate stylesheet for multiple media. My own position is
that we should have both.
</Reply>

<YourComment>
I suggested that this is better left to a stylesheet, as not all
properties depend on the medium.  I adduced CSS's @media rule as an
example.
</YourComment>

<Reply>
OK for @media as an example so we then need a way for XSL to specify other
media and some persons in this list made suggestions, we will just be more
prepared and be better critics of the next specs. We won't be just recipient
of W3 specs :-) but thinking organisms.
</Reply>

<YourComment>
XSL has not yet solved this problem, but is not finished.
</YourComment>

<Reply>
Yes I agree, and this is why we have this thread, to think about this issue
in the light of XSL stylesheet format. Thinking about this issue is not
solely reserved to W3 members but also to people who will use this spec,
doesn't it?
</Reply>

<YourComment>
DSSSL does not address this problem, but was not designed for the Web,
and adding baggage to the processing instruction for this special case
is un-wise.  Providing alternate stylesheets with well-chosen titles
is a better approach.
<YourComment>

<Reply>
You are talking like if DSSSL is a living dead without any future. Are you
implicitely suggesting that DSSSL won't have any future specs improved.
Specs more in tune with the CSS and XSL world? Maybe you have good reason to
think so, so please expose them. We'll learn.
</Reply>

Regards
Didier PH Martin
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