Re: removing HTML flow objects?

["Frank Boumphrey" <bckman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>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>.

The figures that I have heard is that by the end of this year less than 10%
of users will have a 3 or worse browser. With the next version of Opera
supporting CSS are be really going to allow a small percentage of users to
eviscerate what was once a promising new development? role on Spice!! The
Spice references can be found at

http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/spice
The original note on spice presented to W3
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-spice-19980123.html
A comparison of XSL and Spice
http://www.sil.org/sgml/spice-XSL980224.html

>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

Agreed, but where is it.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: David Megginson <ak117@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, May 22, 1998 10:54 AM
Subject: removing HTML flow objects?


>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
>
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