Re: Nostradamus (was Re: FO. lists as tables)

[pandeng@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Steve Schafer)]

On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 18:53:22 +0100 (BST), you wrote:

>CSS would eventually extend its formatting model to be more like that
>of XSL

I don't see how this could possibly work. XSL is not an extension of
CSS2; it's a shotgun marriage of CSS2 and DSSSL. There are some
features of absolutely-positioned blocks for which the CSS2 way of
doing things is fundamentally at odds with the XSL way of doing
things. (I posted a message about this a few days ago.) 

There are other fundamental incompatibilities as well. For example,
CSS2 processes formatting instructions sequentially (thus, there is a
well-defined ordering). XSL specifies formatting instructions as XML
element attributes, which are intrinsically unordered.

-Steve Schafer


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