Subject: Re: XSL Trans From: Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 21:47:55 -0500 |
clilley wrote: > [deletia] > > I agree that doing good rendering is hard. However, products already > exist that have the appropriate algorithms to do the sort of > manipulations that are required when formatting text, flowing into > containers, embedding images, etc. They can easily take in a declarative > (CSS, XSL) description of styling plus a document instance and generate > a rendered result. > > They are called word processors, and it has been observed that it is > much easier to add HTTP support to a wordprocessor than it is to add > rendering support to a network utility. ... [deletia] Idon't think that it is easy to create an editing environment that applies an arbitrary transformation to the content and then lets you edit in the transformed ("WYSIWYG") view. An extreme example is a stylesheet that removes information. How can you edit documents that use this stylesheet in a "WYSIWYG" view? Clearly we are going to need different stylesheets (and perhaps a different stylesheet *language*) for word processors. Disturbingly, we may have some of the same problems on the browser end. If you hyperlink to a particular element, and that particular element is rendered in six different places, which one does the browser show you? Paul Prescod - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco How many of the Congresspeople who voted for the CDA do you suppose also voted to release the report that reads like a borderline por- nographic dime-store romance written by a Texas preacher's son? - Keith Dawson, TBTF http://www.tbtf.com/archive/09-14-98.html http://www.tbtf.com/resource/hypocrites.html XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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