Re: XSL Requirements (was: Microsoft extensions to XSL)

["James Tauber" <jtauber@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Oren Ben-Kiki <oren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>My bet is that the formatting part of XSL would just wither away.

I hope not. If XML is going to be used for serious printing work, you need
XSL and not CSS.

Let me quote from Jon Bosak recently on xml-dev talking about the kind of
complexity needed by print publishing and planned for XSL:

    That's not complex.  Complex is multiple columns, interleaved column
    sets with multiple text flows, footnote zones, synchronized
    marginalia, math formatting, mixed vertical and horizontal writing
    directions -- in other words, the stuff you need in order to do
    genuinely internationalized automated print publishing.


James
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Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia

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