Subject: RE: Venting From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:11:52 -0500 |
At 05:09 PM 2/11/99 +0000, you wrote: >So what one is left with is radical overengineering, ie., having a whole >raft of CSS spec to reinvent the wheel of all your basic FOs... I still >don't see this as an easy option. But the CSS spec already does just about everything out there; I'm sure someone on the XSL side of life can find something it's missing, but I can't say I've been overly impressed with the reinvention of the (CSS) wheel that XSL FO's seem to me to be. >I have played with XML+CSS in IE5, and while it's useful with maybe IE5 >behaviours for producing "widgets" (I produced a collapsable navigation >menu, from XML data), I'm not overly enamoured at the prospect of complex >rendering using this approach. I appreciate others may differ, but I'm sure >that print designers wont like being told XML+CSS is the solution they >should adopt. CSS1? Probably not. CSS2? No problem. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer / Building XML Applications (April) Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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