Subject: Re: More XSL Discussion From: Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:39:22 -0500 |
Michael Kay wrote: > > - it imposes a requirement that the start and end tags be balanced. This is > extremely restrictive: for example if you have two patterns, one for the > first element of a group and the other for the last element in a group, you > cannot generate a opening <UL> tag in the first and a closing </UL> in the > second. I strongly suspect that XSL will require this balancing *anyhow*. XSL flow objects are not HTML *code*, they are HTML *elements*. I do not think it makes sense to create half an element, though that might be convenient. DSSSL's model does not allow these sorts of linear dependencies between construction rules. For instance formatting the last paragraph in a series of 10,000 does not require the formatting of every one before it, in the DSSSL model. So there is no way to know that the last paragraph actually occurs inside some <DIV> that changes its formatting. I agree with your other points. Paul Prescod - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco [Woody Allen on Hollywood in "Annie Hall"] Annie: "It's so clean down here." Woody: "That's because they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows." XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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