- From: <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 19:31:46 -0500
- To: "Michael Champion" <michael_champion@ameritech.net>
- cc: www-dom@w3.org
The XSL Working Group has certainly expressed an interest in this. But the question of whether XSL processing is something applied _by_ a DOM, or _to_ a DOM, is open to debate. Note that the DOM's CSS support currently consists only of associating style rules with the document, and doesn't (yet) address actually running the CSS processor. The strongest argument in favor of building styling into the DOM is that once you start talking about actively working with a transformed page, you may need to associate from the source document to the styled version and back -- and that may require active support from the two documents themselves. The strongest argument against is that you may want to use the same basic API to apply XSL to other document models... and that the DOM may not be the optimum representation for an XSL processor to use internally. The DOM is _a_ W3C API; it doesn't have to be the only W3C API. This is definitely an area where the two working groups will have to work with each other to determine what will best address the needs of the users. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
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