Subject: RE: Transformation + FOs makes abuse easy From: "Reynolds, Gregg" <greynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:49:28 -0500 |
-----Original Message----- From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 11:54 AM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Transformation + FOs makes abuse easy The original proposals behind XSL seem to have intended that transformation and presentation go together, and that formatting objects would exist only inside of rendering software. The growing separation between the transformation tools (which have uses beyond FOs) and the formatting vocabulary (which is now another XML application) has created a very real possibility that organizations will choose to send their XSL-processed information to browsers using the FO vocabulary or presentation-oriented HTML. Not possibility; certainty. Look at the business incentives from the perspective of software developers. XSL provides a standardize language for partially formatted output, which frees developers to concentrate on the things they do best. Why would a vendor of data management software try to write a formatting engine, and why would a vendor of formatting engines try to write a query engine? Given a standard for data interchange, vendors can focus on the things they do best, with relatively high confidence that the market will generate solutions to the part they themselves don't want to tackle. The only incentive against this is...W3C exhortations? This is not abuse, its use. The stone that one builder refuses is another's cornerstone. I'm not sure user organizations will necessarily care one way or the other; they will always be able to tailor their environments to get what they want out of the tools. These are my personal opinions and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer nor the XSL WG. Cheerios Gregg Reynolds XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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