Subject: RE: CSS and XSL From: "Didier PH Martin" <martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 17:06:59 -0500 |
HI Don, <YourComment> I would like us to keep our focus on the subject of splitting the XSL spec into XTL and XFO. Discussion of the XSS issues should be moved to CSS mailing list especially because it will meet more resistance there. Trial by fire will bare the true merit of the proposal. </YourComment> <Reply> The problem is that advocating XML CSS (I guess this is what you call XSS?) in the CSS group is like promoting to american people to change their national language to a new language ;-) We should not forget that CSS is a language with its own syntax and way of expressing things. The new thread is more about finding a consistant way to express the relationship between rendition objects and their respective property set. the XSL "transformation" module can produce XML. If, for example, voyager or its next version, provide a consistant way to express the relationship of its objects and their associated property sets, we will have gained in clarity and coherence in the overall XML construct. It remains that CSS could still exist as a language and even evolve like should do DSSSL and that both communities built around these language will keep all the necessary vitality to have their language evolve. But we have also, the opportunity to have XML eveolve the right way. XSL "transformation" module because it has to deal with HTML (or the next XML version named voyager) or SVG as formatting object is perhaps more "sensible" to having these rendition languages coherent and more "in tune" with the overall XML philosophy of having a simpler SGML and a single syntax to express document structure (and therefore simpler document parsers). Otherwise, XML rendition languages may suffer from a sizoid personnality. The point is: Is it more wisdom to force a retrofit of CSS into the XML(voyager) rendition objects or have a more coherent model (I guess that we don't have any choice for version 1 because of the legacy, but we can work toward that). For SVG, there is no legacy and, in this case, we can expect a more coherent model independant of CSS (just keep the concepts not the syntax). </Reply> 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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