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----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Tchistopolskii <paul@xxxxxxx> > > > Also, isn't it handy to have just one stylesheet for different media ? > > > > But generally not a good idea. The way you format something for one media is > > rarely the way it should be formatted for another. > > Very strong sentence. Not really. It is one of the most commonly cited benefits of generic markup. > I have another point of view after talking to some real-life clients. I have been producing dual-media (print and web) for five years and I have *never* come across a document I would by preference display the same online as in print. For a start, print is paginated. It has headers and footers, page numbers, tables of contents. On the web, you either have a scroll or multiple pages and if the latter, these are broken up generally according to the structure of the document, not a fixed page size. You have navigation bars to move, not only through pages, but through the hierarchical structure. Consider delivery of the same document to a third medium: a PDA. There are completely different approaches that need to be taken to fonts, pagination and navigation. Now sure, these different stylesheets will have a lot in common and you can modularise your stylesheets to achieve this. But to produce exactly the same formatting objects for print, web and PDA is a really bad idea! James -- James Tauber / jtauber@xxxxxxxxxxx / www.jtauber.com Maintainer of : www.xmlinfo.com, www.xmlsoftware.com and www.schema.net <pipe>Ceci n'est pas une pipe</pipe> XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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