Subject: Re: Venting From: Norman Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 13:30:54 -0500 |
/ David LeBlanc <whisper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say: | Ok, it seems apparent that the transformation component can be independent | of the stylistic component of XSL. Is the converse true? Can you go from an | XML document or DOM representation directly to the FO output without doing | transformation? If not, then maybe transformation and style do need to be No, in the general case, you cannot. / "Didier PH Martin" <martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say: | <Reply> | Yes you can. In fact, you can use CSS to render a XML document. In this | case, you associate a style property set to each element (or class if you That only works if the logical structure of my input document matches the logical structure of my output document. If I want to introduce generated text or reorder the content of my source, I need to do some transformations. Consider the DocBook Figure element, its structure is <figure><title>some title</title> <graphic fileref="somefile"></graphic> </figure> If I want this rendered as [somefile] Figure 1-1: some title I have to reorder the source content to place the figure title after the graphic. This is how XSL got into transformation in the first place. Cheers, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx> | In all pointed sentences, some http://nwalsh.com/ | degree of accuracy must be | sacrificed to | conciseness.--Samnuel Johnson XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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