Subject: RE: `High-level' format specifications with XSL? From: "Hales, Lynn" <Hales_le@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 10:20:34 -0400 |
I am not saying that what you want is wrong or can't be done. I'd like an easy way to style an instance myself. All I am saying is that if you have an peculiar element name for your header (we'll continue the header thread, but it applies to any element), someone, somewhere is going to have to prepare the instructions to give you what you want. It may be a one time deal, but a style has to be defined at least once. We may have boilerplated styles available that you can just drop your element name into. In HTML, the browser contains the instructions on how a given element will be treated. If you use an H2, then you know what the browser will return. Internal to the browser are the instructions to make it do what you expect. There are the same rules in the background for LaTex. There is a commonality in the structure. This commonality won't be there in the myriad of XML documents we will be seeing. Lynn E. Hales Information Systems Specialist Newport News Shipbuilding hales_le@xxxxxxx (757) 688-2949 ---------- From: Kai Grossjohann[SMTP:grossjohann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, July 02, 1998 9:43 AM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: `High-level' format specifications with XSL? >>>>> "Hales, Lynn" <Hales_le@xxxxxxx> writes: > In reality, the information on how a heading is formatted is > there. Someone else has done the work for you. Recall with XML, > I can call a header anything I want. Until I tell the formatting > engine what that header is and what is expected of it, I get > nothing in return. The information on how a heading is formatted is where? I want to produce good-looking output without having to think about this myself. Just like with LaTeX. Is there a Good-Looking-HTML-with-XML XSL stylesheet out there? I would be happy with a way to produce HTML with the usual <H1> and <H2> as well as <DL>, <UL> and <OL>. You know, the stuff that has been in HTML since version one. I would also be happy with any other way to achieve what I said -- producing good-looking output without having to worry about each and every parameter, preferrably configurable from the client (browser) side. kai -- You ate somebody? -- Just a leg. -- That's terrible! -- Not with mustard. (Terry Pratchett: Interesting Times) XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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