Subject: Re: Venting From: "Frank Boumphrey" <bckman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 23:23:06 -0500 |
Simon Wrote: >I'm exceedingly disappointed by much of that XSL seems to be doing and >redoing, but complaining about it in an unsympathetic forum isn't going to >achieve very much. > >Have fun, y'all. I'll play with your transformations, and use the >formatting objects only as much as I have to when I'm writing a tutorial. perhaps us Authors are of a similar mind. I have gone form being a big fan of XSL to the status of 'just keeping up with it because I have to' I to play with transformations, but I use the DOM for most of this. Quite frankly I see DSSSL as a powerful style language already in place for 'dead tree' publishing, and CSS as a viable, living language for the Internet. XSL seems to fall in the twilight region inbetween. Frank ----- Original Message ----- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 1999 9:08 PM Subject: RE: Venting >At 08:17 PM 2/11/99 -0500, you wrote: >>Simon - >> >>Are you trying to provoke? I think you should sit back and give your head >a shake. >> >>We're all here, more or less, because this technology allows us to call >things what they *are*. >> >>A 'margin note' is a margin note not 'linked content'. A person's needs >are a person's needs. Let it be. > >No problem; go back to your work, and have a great time. > >I'm exceedingly disappointed by much of that XSL seems to be doing and >redoing, but complaining about it in an unsympathetic forum isn't going to >achieve very much. > >Have fun, y'all. I'll play with your transformations, and use the >formatting objects only as much as I have to when I'm writing a tutorial. > >Simon St.Laurent >XML: A Primer / Building XML Applications (April) >Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies >http://www.simonstl.com > > > 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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