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Subject: Re: About the style processing instruction From: Paul Fidler <praf1@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 19:05:23 +0000 (GMT) |
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Didier PH Martin wrote: > Here is essence of the proposal about a certain usage of the "media" > property. This is not a big thing but at least an active effort to resolve a > concrete problem. > ----------------------------- > XML current specifications do not provide explicit means to convert a XML > documents into a particular format (Example: a XML document is transformed > into CGM format). However, The current W3 proposal by being based on CSS > style properties which allows the capacity to specify the rendering media > and provide way to add new media parameters. Surely the media attribute of an HTML link element (or the equivalent psuedo-attribute of the proposed xml-stylesheet pi) is not so much for specifying the rendering media, but to allow the browser/processor/whatever to download or not download a stylesheet and apply it based on the media it has already decided (by some other means) that it is rendering to. A browser will look for a Link/pi with media="print" when the user hits the print button, and the stylesheet (lets say its an xsl stylesheet with some <fo:*> like formatting objects for now) will produce lots of <fo:footnote> elements instead of <fo:inline-link> elements. A stylesheet for media="aural" would similarly produce lots of <fo:block>s with textual descriptions rather than <fo:inline-graphic>s. Note that it was the user clicking a 'Print' button, or a user dialing up a web-to-telephone service that determined the output format - not the media attribute. That was merely a useful hint to the browser. If you really want to specify tex, or rtf, or cgm, then there is nothing to stop you converting your xml into these formats using whatever command-line argument, pi or incantation to your favorite processor uses. You can then put the resulting files on the web. Obviously the less this happens the better - but it is possible now if you really must use a particular output format. Anyway, my apologies if I've entirely missed the point. Best wishes, Paul. Paul Fidler -- Cambridge University Engineering Department Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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