RE: more things CSS can't do that XSL can

I know XSL is pretty powerful like pattern matching/selecting. but 
doesnt XSL "use" CSS to create styling?

Moazzam

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[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Laurie Mann
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Subject: RE: more things CSS can't do that XSL can


I think CSS is certainly USEFUL for formatting HTML
documents, but I think you need a combination of XSL and CSS
to generate usable HTML from XML.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mark Volkmann [SMTP:volkmann@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Thursday, April 06, 2000 7:58 AM
> To:	xsl-list
> Subject:	more things CSS can't do that XSL can
> 
> CSS can't output HTML tags so it can't output image or table tags.
> CSS2 can output tables but Netscape 6 doesn't support CSS2.
> CSS has no constructs corresponding to <xsl:if>, <xsl:choose> or
> <xsl:for-each>.
> 
> I'm still shocked that Tim Bray said "for anyone who wants to deploy XML
> in
> production mode right now, XML + CSS is the way to go."
> 
> 
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