Subject: Re: [xsl] The beginning of xslt? From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:29:06 GMT |
>How can the same people be responsible for both XSLT and XSL-FO? Partly because largely the same group of people had previously been responsible for dsssl which has similar aims, with a similar result. Style sheets occur at the phase between a designer and a finished artist, or between a designer and a typesetter, but generally, structure isn't communicated within a style sheet. Structure is decided at the beginning, with thumbnail sketches or marker roughs. I think this misses the original intention of XML as being "SGML for the web". The intention was for a lighter weight version of SGML such that documents in their original (SGML/XML form) could be served directly over the web rather than having to "downgrade" then to html or postscript as was common at the time (and still now:-) That vision required the development of a matching styling language that would be applied -late- (ie, in the final viewing client) that was capable of rearranging a source XML document into a presentation form, so transformation was (is) seen as an integral part of styling, rather than a css-like view of styling where you are just decorating a tree with styling properties. David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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