Subject: removing HTML flow objects? From: David Megginson <ak117@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 10:48:07 -0400 |
Ed Burns writes: > What's this about removing HTML flow objects? The ability to > render XML/XSL into HTML is a major boon. Also, the decision to > include HTML flow objects for ease of adoption was a sound one. > Please give me more info on this troubling development. I don't think that the first point was as much of a boon as one might think: the HTML flow object set supported was nearly useless for pre-CSS browsers (such as the still-widely-deployed Netscape 3.0) since it didn't include most basic HTML element types like <UL>. There is room for a simple XML Transformation Language (XTL) sharing much of the structure and syntax of XSL -- you could use XTL to create XML, HTML, or even generalised SGML output. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.megginson.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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