Evolving strategies, was RE: An open challenge: HTML 4.0 tables

["Pawson, David" <DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephen J Tinney wrote

This raises a question that has been on my mind for a while.  When I
first heard about DSSSL I (naively) assumed that here was a tool that
would allow one to make many different kinds of output with a single
style sheet, perhaps just by specifying a different output type on
the command line.

It seems that most people do not use it this way; does anybody?  Are
there
any evolving best strategies for making a style sheet that can generate
html or rtf or tex with no changes to source or style sheet?


My 'model' has a stack of dtd's on the left for the markup of different
doc classes, and for each dtd a set of stylesheets on the right,
one per media. Being dos based I have a set of batch files
which go something like <dtd>2<o/pmedia>, eg Mag2html
Hence the 'single command line' 'works', but not as your 
best strategies vision.

Regards, DaveP

From: Dave Pawson. RNIB(UK)
e-mail dpawson@xxxxxxxxxxx



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