Subject: Why Core Flow Objects From: Francois Belanger <francois@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 98 09:25:09 -0400 |
I'm looking at different parsers and stylesheet and see constantly the need for Core Flow Objects. I'd like to understand (and could not find the answer in XSL spec) why such as thing is needed. I see it as a barrier to adoption more than anything else as one has to wait for Core Flow Object to be available and supported by a parser to generate different file formats from XML. In other words, what's the difference between those two rules (the second probaly being faster and simpler to parse and also does not need to contain XML-compliant HTML): <rule> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Something</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgcolor="#FC9A27" link="#000000" vlink="#9F0000"> <children/> <IMG src="logo.gif" /> <P><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="2">Legal stuff.</FONT></P> </BODY> </HTML> </rule> <rule> <root/> <![CDATA[ <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Something</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgcolor="#FC9A27" link="#000000" vlink="#9F0000"> ]]> <children/> <![CDATA[ <P><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="2">Legal stuff.</FONT></P> <IMG src="logo.gif"> </BODY> </HTML> ]]> </rule> If the second rule is valid (I think it is), then one can create any kind of output using CDATA sections and do away with Core Flow Objects. Is this a good approach? Or is it the equivalent of the one-pixel GIF hack in HTML and defeats the purpose of XSL? Francois Belanger Sitepak, Bringing Internet Business into Focus http://www.sitepak.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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