Re: Formatting Objects considered harmful

Jonathan Borden wrote:
> 
>         So you are saying that it is possible to create a transformation which
> takes an arbitrary XFO -> XHTML and back i.e.

No. I only claim that that is the case for *abstract* information. I can't
provide a generalized definition of abstract information but in this
context we can use this one: "the information required to drive
non-graphical renditions of the information."

>From a graphical point of view, XFOs have a few features that XHTML+CSS do
not. I cannot enumerate these exhaustively, however.
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