Re: The original purpose of XSL...

[Guy_Murphy@xxxxxxxxxx]

Hi David.

Your point is well put, and certainly more considered that mine which maybe
bordered on the reactionary. If I where to play Devil's Advocate
then I'd point out that current browsers still can't render CSS properly,
but yes, I broadly agree with you here.

I'm just in fear that there's a danger of loosing focus over what XSL is
supposed to do at the end of the day, and so ask are such considerations
worth sacrificing XSL for? If the development community forget the goal of
XSL, then the danger is that it becomes nothing more than a niche
language like DSSSL.

As browsers advance, there can always be an XSL 2.0

Cheers
     Guy.




xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 11/23/98 09:08:22 PM

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Subject:  Re: The original purpose of XSL...





[SNIP]
Apart from anything else, given the rate at which web browsing
technology improves, if you design a language aimed at todays web
browsers, and intentionally omit features that are `only' needed by `high
end' print applications, you may find the language is not powerful enough
to control the web browsers that are in distribution by the time the
style language gets implemented.
David

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