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Subject: Re: XSL intent survey From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 22:03:36 GMT |
Tranforming an arbitrary document into a Web version and a print version (two targets with very different characteristic) is likely to involve some reasonably sophisticated transformation. Once accomplished, it would be nice for "anyone" to be able to adjust things like font/size/style, page size (e.g. A4 vs. US letter), margins and such. I'm not sure if one language can provide sufficient rich transformations for the first group and sufficiently simple "style changes" for the second. but css isn't going to go away. If you have transformed to HTMl by XSL or dsssl or whatever, the end users can still apply a css style sheet and further format the result if they don't like it can't they? But that doesn't seem a good reason to remove the formatiing from the transformation language so that you have to invent a fake `unformatted output' DTD into which you can transform your XML just so you can then apply a `simple' formatting language to typeset it. I just don't see how you can make the split if you want to do more than just colour a few elements in your browser. I want to get TeX quality typesetting out of the formatting/transformation language (probably in the short term by using TeX as a back end). If you are used to using TeX, dsssl is already a strictly limited system, and XSL more so. Suggestions of a style language without even the power of the current XSL draft are just scary... David XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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