- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 09:25:02 -0400 ()
- To: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, MegaZone wrote: > Style Sheets do not address the layout of true tabular data - that > is a *structural* need, not presentational. This is simplistic. If the markup defines the data model, then style sheets can choose how to represent the data according to the capabilities of the medium, e.g. Braille has a restricted number of columns (40 I think) so that it may be better to render a data record as a list. This is where more powerful style sheet languages such as DSSSL come into their own, and motivates the use of XML for documents with lots of data (data rather than document centric). Regards, -- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett phone: +44 122 578 2521 (office) +44 385 320 444 (gsm mobile) World Wide Web Consortium (on assignment from HP Labs)
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