Subject: Re: [xsl] The Future of Browser-Bound XML? From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 21:44:20 +0100 |
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 01:34:40PM -0700, Charles Knell wrote: > CSS is concerned with the appearance of elements on your web page, and > not their semantics. That's why you can't explain via CSS that one element > is a link and the other is an inline image. right, so you cannot put random XML on your web site and expect to render it with CSS. > Concepts such as "link" and "inline image" belong to the world of HTML. > You could alter the appearance of these elements by transforming their > contents into HTML tags that browsers understand (such as "div", "span", > "h1") with XSLT, and then alter their appearance by manipulating the > element's "style" object properties with CSS. quite. we *have* to transform to HTML, its the only semantics that web clients understand. CSS is useful for appearance, but there is more to putting up XML files than appearance. -- Sebastian Rahtz OUCS Information Manager 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431 XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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