Re: foo ... bar Re: Q: XML+XSL transforms to a print-ready format

Subject: Re: foo ... bar Re: Q: XML+XSL transforms to a print-ready format
From: James Robertson <jamesr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 09:56:33 +1000
At 09:26 11/10/1999 , Paul Tchistopolskii wrote:

> Yes; maybe the real question is: will _any_ solution based on "Floormatting
> Objects" ever work?  I have serious doubts about that.  I think it may be
> the wrong set of abstractions, or the right set packaged in the wrong way.

Yes, there are some design flaws. It's not easy to see all of them
until you try to render some particular usecase. There is no suprize
here - I can't  belive one can design a realy good language without
constantly trying to use that language.

Yet another argument for the IETF model:


Two independent implementations before something
can become a final specification.

J

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