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At 18:51 15/10/1999 , Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
And that's what I'm questioning.
By "like", read "use".
So, getting this back to my original question:
"Who exactly is being kept happy by XSLT and XSL:FO?"
J
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Re: Nostradamus (was Re: FO. lists as tables)
Subject: Re: Nostradamus (was Re: FO. lists as tables) From: James Robertson <jamesr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 19:01:49 +1000 |
At 18:51 15/10/1999 , Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
James Robertson writes:
> XSLT is just too wierd for most programmers
Ironic, isn't it. The whole XSL thing started because people said DSSSL's Lisp was "just too wierd for most programmers". No pleasing some folk.
I'm not comparing XSLT to anything. XSLT is not good because it's simpler than DSSSL.
It will be proven better if the "average HTML coder" can understand it, and make use of it.
And that's what I'm questioning.
And no, there is not a single person on this list who is representative of the "average folk", simply because we are all savvy and interested enough to be on this list.
> People like CSS.
I have never met anyone who liked CSS. This (fairly meaningless) statement has at least the virtue of being true (subject to memory limitations), where "People like CSS" is a pure guess.
By "like", read "use".
While I obviously don't have any actual statistics, I think it's safe to assume that an awful lot of people use CSS, while very few use XSLT, let along XSL:FO.
Yes, I am aware that CSS has been around for a while, and that XSLT and XSL:FO are very new.
However, I would argue that CSS wouldn't have become popular if it didn't do at least most of what people wanted.
So, getting this back to my original question:
"Who exactly is being kept happy by XSLT and XSL:FO?"
J
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