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Re: xlxp-dev: XSL and editing tools

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"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:
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> I think what Paul is proposing is something of a halfway-house, so that
> users can have some idea of what their content will end up looking like,
> but still use the power available in transformations.  It's a difficult
> proposal to make work, but I think it'd be worth considering for a large
> number of project types.

Note that I don't intend to propose anything radical here. SGML Editors
have had quasi-WYSIWYG stylesheets since there SGML editors. The only new
thing is that they could be standardized.

I know at least one XML editor is already using CSS -- but CSS with
extensions. I also know that that editor doesn't do everything that we
typically expect from structured markup editors -- in particular cross
references are a weak spot. Beyond generally useful CSS extensions (such
as cross references) there are some needs that are unique to XML editors.
For instance, most have a concept of a "default template" that is inserted
when an element is inserted. Most also have a way of triggering events
when elements are inserted. And so forth...

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