[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Leventhal's challenge misses the point
Jeffrey L. Caruso wrote, > Miles Sabin wrote: > > jcaruso wrote, > > > With XSL they get a certain amount of power and > > > control within a fairly easy-to-understand setting. > > > Almost everyone will be able to learn enough of it > > > for their purposes; e.g. something like a client- > > > generated table of contents should be within > > > anyone's > > > reach. > > > > Yes, but isn't that a subset of XSL which (almost) > > coincides with CSS? > > No. > > Perhaps "client-generated table of contents" was over- > brief: I can send an XML/XSL document and have the > client software (browser) both display the document and > rearrange the content to display a table of contents. So, transformations are involved. In which case I question your confidence that 'almost everyone will be able to learn enough of it for their purposes'. It's not that I doubt the _intelligence_ of (most importantly) graphic designers, I just doubt that they'll have either the time or the inclination to learn how to be programmers. Cheers, Miles -- Miles Sabin Cromwell Media Internet Systems Architect 5/6 Glenthorne Mews +44 (0)181 410 2230 London, W6 0LJ msabin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx England XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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