removing HTML flow objects?

[David Megginson <ak117@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ed Burns writes:

 > What's this about removing HTML flow objects?  The ability to
 > render XML/XSL into HTML is a major boon.  Also, the decision to
 > include HTML flow objects for ease of adoption was a sound one.
 > Please give me more info on this troubling development.

I don't think that the first point was as much of a boon as one might
think: the HTML flow object set supported was nearly useless for
pre-CSS browsers (such as the still-widely-deployed Netscape 3.0)
since it didn't include most basic HTML element types like <UL>.

There is room for a simple XML Transformation Language (XTL) sharing
much of the structure and syntax of XSL -- you could use XTL to create
XML, HTML, or even generalised SGML output.


All the best,


David

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