Subject: Re: The Style sheet PI From: "Didier PH Martin" <martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 17:23:29 -0500 |
Hi, Just to not get lost in the discussion here are the goals as stated in the XSL specs. D. Design Principles (Non-Normative) In the design of any language, trade-offs in the solution space are necessary. To aid in making these trade-offs the follow design principles were used: XSL should support browsing, printing, and interactive editing and design tools XSL should be capable of specifying presentations for traditional and Web environments XSL should support interaction with structured information, as well as presentation of it. XSL should support all kinds of structured information, including both data and documents. XSL should support both visual and non-visual presentations. XSL should be a declarative language. XSL should be optimized to provide simple specifications for common formatting tasks and not preclude more sophisticated formatting tasks. XSL should provide an extensibility mechanism The number of optional features in XSL should be kept to a minimum. XSL should provide the formatting functionality of at least DSSSL and CSS XSL should leverage other recommendations and standards. XSL should be expressed in XML syntax. XSL stylesheets should be human-readable and reasonably clear. Terseness in XSL markup is of minimal importance We should keep in mind these goals when bringing arguments. Regards Didier PH Martin mailto:martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.netfolder.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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