Subject: RE: The big picture From: Didier PH Martin <martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 14:55:58 -0400 |
Hi John, - Is DSSSL on its way out except among a few diehards? Didier replies: I do not know - Assuming XHTML 1.0 is the Web of the Future, will XSL and CSS coexist, or is one of them looking like it will become the dominant technology? I understand they have converged on the same internal rendering machine---is that true? Didier replies: Not exactly, what is most likely to occurs is XSLT to transform an XML document (based on a particular schema) into a rendering language such as WML, XHTML, SMIL, SVG or VoiceML. CSS is most likely to be used for fine-tuning the rendition more particularly for XHTML or to complement SVG. My own opinion - XSLFO won't be a very popular guy. Will it be popular in the printed media arena? maybe if an ISV also bundle it with an expression language such as javascript. - What is the Document Object Model and how does it fit in? Didier replies: DSSSL is based on the grove model which is more powerful and versatile than the DOM. But the DOM does a good job in browsers and for modest applications. Waht to think of a document obkect model which does not even allow to load or save a document. My own opinion, it needs some improvements and the WG needs to do some homework to unify the different models (i.e. info sets). - Is there another trend I've missed? Didier replies: I do not know. Cheers Didier PH Martin ---------------------------------------------- Email: martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Conferences: XML Europe (http://www.gca.org) Book: XML Professional (http://www.wrox.com) column: Style Matters (http://www.xml.com) Products: http://www.netfolder.com DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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