[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Generate CSS to display FO on a web browser
David Allouche writes: > Do you know of any tool that can generate a CSS stylesheet usable to > display a given XML instance containing Formatting Objects in a XML-aware > browser. seems odd. I am not convinced by the arguments against just transforming to HTML+CSS, if you find CSS powerful enough. > - CSS plus XSLT leave many holes that are not easily fixed in a way that > can be both human readable and easily automatable. I think of conditional > styling based on XPath-like logic, something that is done with the > expression syntax of Dynatext. can you give an example of something you cant do here? > those problems, and make the conversion much simpler. But there is still > no such thing as a FO-aware browser with hypertext (just <html:a> is > enough) capability. Acrobat (plugged into your browser) has perfectly good hypertext functionality. so transform your FO to PDF... > Since CSS is so much like FO, there must be a way to generate a CSS > stylesheet to display (simple) FOs... I agree. It sounds a doable project. It just seems slightly sterile. If you write an HTML with nothing but <div> and <span> elements, and the appropriate CSS file, you are there, arent you? Sebastian XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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