- From: Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@appcomp.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:08:09 -0500
- To: "'Manos Batsis'" <m.batsis@bsnet.gr>, Tim Bagot <tsb-w3-style-0003@earth.li>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
> -----Original Message----- > From: Manos Batsis [mailto:m.batsis@bsnet.gr] > Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 9:32 AM > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tim Bagot [mailto:tsb-w3-style-0003@earth.li] > > > I'm not sure I follow your argument. Are you saying that the > > type should > > be required in the markup because one type of style sheet > > might be more > > important than another? > > Exactly. I think that we have lost the most important factor here: css > is *useless* for XML presentation unless both the XML and CSS > documents > are written in the following ways: > > 1) The XML document is structured (um... has it's contents > in a certain > order) in a way that display of contents is meaningful without > transformation. > > 2) The CSS knows that and just styles the document sections > accordingly. > It sounds like your argument is simply that, when both are present, transforming stylesheets should take precedence over layout stylesheets. This doesn't resolve the issues about what happens when both a CSS and a JSSS stylesheet are present, or when XSLT and a to-be-written transforming stylesheet are present. Also, I believe it's the author's job to notice that a simple layout stylesheet is useless and to not include one. Fantasai's rules make sense and ought to be incorporated into the "next version" of the XML Stylesheet Recommendation. Jeffrey Yasskin
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