Subject: Re: More XSL Discussion From: Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 07:36:10 -0500 |
Jeremie Miller wrote: > > ==> Eliminating the style rules and replacing them with a <style></style> > container within any rule? If containers are used within rules, this just > seems like a more appropriate place to do this, instead of duplicating a > whole seperate rule structure just for applying style characteristics to > elements. A style rule is very different semantically, and should probably be quite different syntactically. > ==> Attributes on the containers within a rule. The issue so far is that > having the attributes determine the format/type of content within the > continer isn't valid XML. Why not use CDATA as the content type for the > containers? Even though I know it is kind of a kludge and defeats the > purpose, I'd like to see some good reasoning on wether this would be > plausable. No. XML does not have CDATA declared element content. > Even if it is determined that having the containers be CDATA wouldn't > work, then why not have various containers? Maybe instead of: > <style format="xml"><color>red</color></style> > and > <style format="css">color:red;</style> > You could just have: > <style><color>red</color></style> > and > <css>color:red;</css> This would work, I guess, but the convention in both HTML and other forms of SGML is to use attributes to express notations. > ==> A Raw HTML container. Either: > <action format="html">RAW HTML</action> This won't fly. There is no way to express it in XML, and besides we probably want to encourage people to move to well-formed HTML. Paul Prescod - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco [Woody Allen on Hollywood in "Annie Hall"] Annie: "It's so clean down here." Woody: "That's because they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows." XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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