Re: Nostradamus (was Re: FO. lists as tables)

["Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:53 PM 10/14/99 +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
>I thought (from glancing over some of the papers on css3) that the
>outcome was more the other way that CSS would eventually extend its
>formatting model to be more like that of XSL, with properties suitable
>for printing pages on paper as well as the more traditional CSS domain
>of screen rendering. 

I'd love to see a clear statement of how exactly this is supposed to work.
It seems like it might be easier to develop a core formatting model group,
which then gets expressed through CSS and XSL processing, than to have two
groups working independently, but you never know.

I was referring more to the sense of disappointment expressed by some on
this list that they have to work with CSS at all than any claim that XSL's
formatting model is officially decreed identical to that of CSS.  Apart
from general statements in the last draft (5/21), regarding the use of
existing CSS properties as a foundation and  extensions to CSS, it isn't
real clear (from the outside) how this process works, and how it will
interoperate with ongoing work on CSS3.

It'll be interesting!


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