Subject: RE: `High-level' format specifications with XSL? From: "Pawson, David" <DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 15:34:19 +0100 |
> -----Original Message----- > From: Hales, Lynn [SMTP:Hales_le@xxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, July 02, 1998 12:49 PM > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: `High-level' format specifications with XSL? Lynn Hales wrote: > In reality, the information on how a heading is formatted is there. > Someone > else has done the work for you. Recall with XML, I can call a header > anything I want. Until I tell the formatting engine what that header is > and > what is expected of it, I get nothing in return. > > I will agree that for the average user, developing any kind of style sheet > is kind of mind boggling. We are too used to the Word and WordPerfect > WYSIWYG that write the style file based on what we place in the document > from the tool bars. That kind of functionality would be nice in a XML > application. > Isn't that what http://www.arbortext.com/xmlstyler does, or makes a first attempt at doing? regards, DaveP > Lynn E. Hales > Information Systems Specialist > Newport News Shipbuilding > hales_le@xxxxxxx > (757) 688-2949 > > > ---------- > From: Kai Grossjohann[SMTP:grossjohann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, July 02, 1998 7:33 AM > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: `High-level' format specifications with XSL? > > Hi all, > > I use and love LaTeX because it allows me to `semantically' mark up > a > document and let the computer worry about making it look good. I > just > tell it I want a section with the following heading, and LaTeX > produces the right amount of spacing and the right font weight and > size for the heading and so on, to make the output look good. > > I'd like to use something similar for XSL. While HTML has very > limited structuring capabilities, at least I can say I want a > subsection heading (<H2>) and let the browser (and with CSS, the > user) > worry about making it look good. But from my limited experience > with > the xslj/jade combination, it seems that I can't just tell it I want > to have a section heading. Instead, I must tell it that it should > be > left-justified, the font style, the font size, the font weight, and > the spacing. I don't want to do that -- users should be able to > configure their browser how they like, not have to accept my > specifications. > > So, how do I produce `good-looking' (HTML) output without having to > specify all spacings and font-weights and the like? > > tia, > kai > -- > You ate somebody? -- Just a leg. -- That's terrible! -- Not with > mustard. > (Terry Pratchett: Interesting Times) > > > XSL-List info and archive: > http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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