Subject: Fw: Error correction (Was also Announcement) From: "Oren Ben-Kiki" <oren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:41:52 +0200 |
Heikki Toivonen <heikki@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> So I would get instead: >> >> <?xml-stylesheet href="urn:tns:myscript" type="text/xsl" >> media="screen, CGM" > >I think you are still confusing two concepts here that Chris is trying to >point out. Let me see if I can help you out. > >screen = rendering >cgm = abstraction (data format) >dsssl = abstraction (style format, transformation rules format) >xsl = abstraction (style format, transformation rules format) >css = abstraction (style format) I'm not sure what you mean by distinguishing "style format" and "data format", but I'm pretty certain that XSL as it stands today is "transformation rules format" + "data format". <fo*> objects seem like a data format to me. >So what does the above mean? If you specify media="CGM" or format="CGM" you >just say that you want to convert the current XML file to the format >specified in media or format attribute. The new format is still an >abstraction, not rendering. You can not see, nor hear nor feel a CGM file. >You need to render it on screen or some other device to actually experience >it. It does not help if you specify format="tex" -- you still need to render >the TeX format before you can experience it, be the rendering on screen, on >paper or voice. This becomes absurd if you specify format="dsssl". You say >you convert your document to stylesheet? (But maybe I do not know enough >about DSSSL or XSL...) XSL specifies both the transformation rules _and_ the data format of the results, but forces them to exist under the same name. A "text/xsl" format makes perfect sense if you mean "convert to a document containing <fo:*> elements"; as you point out, it makes much less sense to say "convert to an XSL stylesheet". To make this distinction, however, one would have to acknowledge that XSL = XTL (transformation) + XFL (formatting)... Nice example of why this is a technical issue, instead of a political one. Share & Enjoy, Oren Ben-Kiki XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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