Subject: Re: Transformation + FOs makes abuse easy From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:55:08 -0400 |
At 02:08 PM 4/28/99 -0400, Jonathan Borden wrote: > So you agree that, logically, the most open and semantically rich way to >transmit information is via XML with conversion on the client into a >presentation format. Whether the XSL sheet converts into XHTML+CSS or XFO on >the client is irrelevent to the fact that the data started out as >semantically rich, and perhaps arbitrary XML/RDF. Actually, no. I'd send XML+CSS and skip the XSL work, unless I had a case which actually required transformation. (Converting a table of data into an SVG graphic would be a good case for that.) There's no need to go to HTML except to support legacy browsers. > In a perfect world, all browsers would support client side >transformation. In a perfect world, no one would send XFOs across a network. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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