Re: XML + (XSL | CSS) ?

["Lisa Pease" <lisap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jelks Cabaniss <jelks@xxxxxxxx>
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, May 15, 1998 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: XML + (XSL | CSS) ?


>Daniel Glazman wrote:
>> > XSL is, even if I am enthusiastic about embedding styles
>> > into a XML formalism, a complex specification and I doubt
>> > that all the audience who hardly understands some difficult
>> > concepts in CSS will be able to produce XSL quickly.
>
>Lisa Pease wrote:
>> Using XSL, I can put the text directly into the style
>> sheet once, and have it repeat 1000 times for each
>> book listing. In addition, I can select out only
>> those portions which I am using for that list.
>
>All very true, but look at the stars too much and you can tumble into a
hole.
>Sure, XSL is way cool, no question about it.  But XML 1.0 and CSS 2.0 are
Full
>Recommendations TODAY; how far off is XSL?  Judging from the Working Draft
of
>XSL Requirements, a good while.  So do we experiment with half-baked
solutions
>like IE3 did with CSS version 0.5, or do we implement using beautiful,
solid
>blueprints -- while *planning* for the future?  Is there any reason we
can't
>have BOTH options, like CSS for simple stuff, XSL for for more complex or
>dynamic stuff?  We want XML + CSS, and we want it NOW!  (apologies to Jim
>Morrison ...)
>


Well, as you say, look at what we have today.

XSL works in large part already via the msxsl control and processor.

HTML 4.0 and CSS1 aren't even fully implemented in the browsers. How long
will it be before the CSS2 recommendation is implemented in full?

:-)

I can do things today in XSL that I can't yet do in CSS, despite full
Recommendation status of both CSS1 and 2.






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