Re: syntax feedback

[Daniel GLAZMAN <daniel.glazman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Prescod a écrit :

> CSS does formatting, pattern matching and layout. Why not use it as it is?

	Yeah... So why does XSL reinvent the wheel and not reuse CSS
selectors' syntax ? Why those ugly xsl:then and BLA $eq$ "sdfv" ?
Why position qualifiers using negative integers in order to say 'last
one' ? Berk !!!!

	CSS general syntax is also used by Cascading Action Sheets
from Netscape, HTML Components (HTC) from Microsoft, and my personal
proposal STTS which is a transformation language. CAS and HTC are
harmonized in the CSS+FP WG and I'll have a first runnable full implem
of STTS in february ; it will be of course freely available.

	CSS is not this small little thing for dummies which stands in
a corner of the W3C web site. It is clearer, simpler than XSL is (as
a member of W3C, I have access to XSL WG docs) and will be. It is
extremely powerful and the selector's syntax is the first thing which
is really new in the markup language world we have been exploring
during 15 years (I am of course forgetting HyTime).

	Oh, BTW, I've shown examples of XSL to newbies and SGML users
too. The result ? They hated it. Quotation : " looks like an hybrid of
Perl, csh and SGML invented by a Microsoft employee " :-)))

</Daniel>


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