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Subject: Re: The Style sheet PI
From: "Didier PH Martin" <martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 17:23:29 -0500

Hi,

Just to not get lost in the discussion here are the goals as stated in the
XSL specs.

D. Design Principles (Non-Normative)
In the design of any language, trade-offs in the solution space are
necessary. To aid in making these trade-offs the follow design principles
were used:

XSL should support browsing, printing, and interactive editing and design
tools
XSL should be capable of specifying presentations for traditional and Web
environments
XSL should support interaction with structured information, as well as
presentation of it.
XSL should support all kinds of structured information, including both data
and documents.
XSL should support both visual and non-visual presentations.
XSL should be a declarative language.
XSL should be optimized to provide simple specifications for common
formatting tasks and not preclude more sophisticated formatting tasks.
XSL should provide an extensibility mechanism
The number of optional features in XSL should be kept to a minimum.
XSL should provide the formatting functionality of at least DSSSL and CSS
XSL should leverage other recommendations and standards.
XSL should be expressed in XML syntax.
XSL stylesheets should be human-readable and reasonably clear.
Terseness in XSL markup is of minimal importance

We should keep in mind these goals when bringing arguments.

Regards
Didier PH Martin
mailto:martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.netfolder.com


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