Subject: Re: CSS Flow Objects in XSL [WAS: RE: HTML Flow objects that span rules] From: Mark_Overton@xxxxxxxxx Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:05:45 -0400 |
I agree with most of what you say here. I think there needs to be an abstract set of flow objects that is well defined for XSL. However, I also think that many output formats will need flow objects which are not defined in a generic XSL specification. There needs to be some way to take advantage of the format specific capabilities. I have been building an RTF implementation of the XSL processor. There are some RTF specific things which I want to be able to include. For example, RTF has a Table of Contents element. I could try to build this up in XSL but I would be sacrificing the functionality of the native element. The native RTF Table of Contents can be updated if the document changes. I can also change the style of the TOC after the document has been generated. RTF editors can expose other functionality like allowing the user to navigate by clicking on a line in the TOC. If I build a TOC line-by-line by using XSL core flow objects I would not be able to gain access to the native formats full cababilities. An Aural output format is a good example . I'm sure that there would be many flow objects needed for this format that are not in the core set. I think we need to somehow logically seperate the XSL processing of the rules from the flow object to output format translation. -Mark <<<I think it would be appropriate to replace flow classes <DIV> and <SPAN> with their corresponding names in the 'display' property: <block> and <inline>. This would help alleviate the confusion the existing tags have created. To would also help define a future direction for XSL with respect to CSS flow objects (that being the inclusion of new flow objects <run-in>, <compact>, and maybe most of the table related display options; 'marker', 'list-item', and 'none' are redundant within the XSL syntax). ...>>> XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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