Subject: Re: XSL proposal From: Derek Denny-Brown <ddb@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 12:23:28 -0700 |
I (finnaly!) sat down and read through the XSL proposal, after leaving it at the office and spending too many days a walking chemical daze (thanks to the joys of flu medicines). I would like to join my voice with the others congratulating the team for coming up with what look to me like an excellent compromise between CSS and DSSSL. Amusingly, I have recently been batting around an idea for a DSSSL like stylesheet language which outputs HTML+CSS but where the core language was JavaScript rather than Scheme. The XSL team beat me to it... and did it better. I have one problem which would make it difficult for us to use as a direct replacement for our current (Perl based) scheme. A 'bug' in the authoring software causes it to insert paragraph tags with no content unbeknownst to the author (i.e. there is no visual indication in the authoring environment that these tags are there). In order to render properly, we need to ignore paragraph tags with no #PCDATA content. I see no way of doing that with the current XSL approach. A while back there was talk about creating a faux element type for pseudo-elements, using "#PCDATA" as the element-type. I think XSL would be an excellent place to introduce such a concept. (and it would allow XSL to be used in our system, without having to pre-process the SGML) -derek Derek E. Denny-Brown II || ddb@xxxxxxxxxx "Reality is that which, || Seattle, WA USA when you stop believing in it, || WWW/SGML/HyTime/XML doesn't go away." -- P. K. Dick || Java/Perl/Scheme/C/C++ DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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