RE: Flow Object Macros for HTML 3.2

["Didier PH Martin" <martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tony,

The version 4.0 includes SCRIPT, STYLE, CLASS constructs that allows the
inclusion of scripts and CSS. These constructs where mentionned in 3.2 but
not included in the DTD.

Do you think that macros for the STYLE , SCRIPT and class construct are
feasible? I guess that for CLASS probably yes because it is a element's
property but I am not so sure for SCRIPT and STYLE. Your opinion on that
Tony?

By the way, I compiled a new version of the DSSSL engine (Talva's Jade
version) and added the -2 parameter. I am always surprised to see that it is
as fast as the Microsoft XSL engine to render a SGML document. Imagine, we
have SGML document validation that the XSL processor do not have. Even with
the macros, it is still fast. I compared with the equivalent XSL script with
IE 5.x. So I ran the SGML/XML Kit (named by the marketing guys here Document
with Style) with IE 5.x and could do some benchmark. I just added a PI to
the document for DSSSL processing and bang, got it rendered in the browser
when I typed the SGML URL in the address box. I really think that the macros
you brought are more easy to read for document transformed to on-line
documents than the original GI constructs. So if we can add STYLE and
SCRIPT... a DSSSL document may be even more readable than a XSL one!!


Regards
Didier PH Martin
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