Subject: Why transformation? From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 13:59:20 -0400 |
This is a fairly basic question, I realize - but why is transformation needed in a style language? I'm having a damn hard time coming up with good reasons why transformation and formatting actually belong together, and can't find good reasons to push XSL over CSS for about 90% of the applications I can envision. Is there a good reason for this, or is it just that XSL has transformations because DSSSL did? There must be something more to it than the comfort level of those used to working with SGML tools, but so far, I haven't heard much exciting. Where does XSL fit in an XML application architecture? Why is this more more useful than CSS? What is the value of conflating style and transformation? Thanks. I'm attempting to write an overview chapter on styles, and can't find any great reasons to tell people to use XSL. Simon St.Laurent Dynamic HTML: A Primer / XML: A Primer Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth (November) Building XML Applications (December) http://www.simonstl.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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