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Re: `High-level' format specifications with XSL?

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Hales, Lynn wrote:
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> In HTML, the browser contains the instructions on how a given element will
> be treated.  If you use an H2, then you know what the browser will return.
> Internal to the browser are the instructions to make it do what you expect.
> There are the same rules in the background for LaTex.  There is a
> commonality in the structure.  This commonality won't be there in the myriad
> of XML documents we will be seeing.

Not "in general", but of course there will be wide swathes of documents
with the same characteristics that could benefit from the same higher
level flow objects. Most documents in DocBook and TEI-Lite, for example,
could easily be done using LaTeX. If DSSSL had LaTeX-style flow objects,
you could style those languages and others like them more easily.

 Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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