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Subject: RE: foo ... bar Re: Q: XML+XSL transforms to a print-ready format
From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 12:35:16 +0100 (BST)
RE: foo ... bar Re: Q: XML+XSL transforms to a print-ready f
Reynolds, Gregg writes:
 > Yes; maybe the real question is: will _any_ solution based on "Floormatting
 > Objects" ever work?  I have serious doubts about that.

I guess we will never know until we try it. There seem to be strong
arguments that it can never work.A pity that the
DSSSL effort was effectively kicked into touch, because that would
have answered the question.

 > the wrong set of abstractions, or the right set packaged in the wrong way.
 > Notice, by the way, the stupendous number of Humongous Corporate Entities
 > that have announced (or even hinted at) support for FOs.

too much money at stake, I suppose.

 > What is really missing in all of this is a rigorous formal (or even
 > semi-formal) language (or meta-language) for formatting, which would allow
isnt that what the ISO effort that resulted in DSSSL supposed to have
been?

Sebastian


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