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Re: XML + (XSL | CSS) ?

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Lisa Pease wrote:

> XSL allows me to do all kinds of things I could never do in CSS. Let's take
> a very simple example. Imagine I have a book catalog with 1000s of books in
> it. Each has this form in XML:
> 
> <BOOK>
> <TITLE>...</TITLE>
> <AUTHOR>...</AUTHOR>
> <CATEGORY>...</CATEGORY>
> <ISBN>...</ISBN>... and so forth.
> 
> Imagine now that I want to print it out in this form:
> 
> Title:  [title]
> Author: [author]
> ISBN: [isbn]
> 
> etc.
> 
> Using XSL, I can put the text directly into the style sheet once, and have
> it repeat 1000 times for each book listing. In addition, I can select out
> only those portions which I am using for that list.
> 
> Now imagine being able to add script to a style within the style definition
> itself. You can do that in XSL. You can't in CSS.

Oh yes you can :

	BOOK:before { content : "Title: " }

Section 12.1 of CSS 2.

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