Subject: Re: MSXML happening for a reason ! From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:35:11 -0700 (MST) |
> Personally I am committed to the alternate model : > > Here is the data, > Here is how I expect you to view it. > > It then comes under the control of the client (which isn't always a > browser) if they choose to parse it to your graphic layout. The problem is, the natural tendency is to write the "here is how I expect you to view it" not in terms of compatible standards but in terms of real client functionality. When the clients take a "step forward" as you put it, delivering some additional features that are not interoperable and that are beyond the scope of standards or in violation of them, the viewing instructions get deeper into the realm of client-specific rendering instructions and behavioral controls. XHTML 1.1 will address some of this, but without vendor support... *sigh* <more_pessimism> XSLT is about building up a tree of related objects, possibly based on the contents of other such trees, while XSLFO provides definitions of objects in a page layout model, such that XSLT can be used to generate a tree of XSLFO objects. In theory, XSLFO, if it ever becomes robust enough for the web, will be a neutral middle layer of abstraction that all clients can support equally. However I fear that in the real world, a "visual" XSLT processor such as IE5 that demands creation of HTML with IE5-specific scripting in the result tree, rather than XSL formatting objects, will win out because it actually works, right now. </more_pessimism> - Mike ________________________________________________________________________ Mike Brown / Hyperreal | Hyperreal http://www.hyperreal.org/music/ PO Box 61334 | XML & XSL http://www.skew.org/xml/ Denver CO 80206-8334 USA | http://www.hyperreal.org/~mike/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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