Subject: RE: html to dsssl ? From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:13:00 +0000 (GMT) |
Didier PH Martin writes: > I would say mainly marketing instead. W3C is doing a very good public > relation job. Its members too. So, it is not a question of language virtues > but more of marketing. We are back here again. The W3C did not invent XSL in opposition to DSSSL. It formed a group to look at a `DSSSL for the Web' and that group (including many DSSSLers) reluctantly decided to switch syntax. If they could have persuaded people to use (), they would have. > I agree that if the general population has trouble learning abstract > formatting objects these two languages are in trouble. In this sense, CSS > has more chances because it only support a limited set of basic objects: > page, block, inline. Easier to remember :-) we probably agree that if CSS takes over the world, we can all just leave the room; last one out turn off the light of real typesetting... > more sophisticated page model for variable margins. This is a must for most > book publishing. OpenJade has to be improved on this side. Also, a PDF > backend would greatly help for printing and pre-viewing the result. This is > in the "to do" list :-) You have a PDF backend, using a very sophisticated page makeup engine (TeX). Since we can see that even TeX has problems with DSSSL, there is a way to go. I repeat, the DSSSL model is almost entirely _unproven_ > Sebastian said: > do I, as a user, care what the implementation language is? no.... > > Didier says: > but you may care about the speed no? minimally. > Didier says: > Or have some concept form XSL imported into OpenJade. the goal is not Didier, you are born to be a TeX person! > necessarily to copycat XSL and to copy its flaws (and good sides too) or good lord, XSL is still in _draft_, and you talk about learning from its flaws????? why not get in there and make XSL right???? Sebastian DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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