- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:33:46 -0400
- To: www-tag@w3.org
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, w3c-css-wg@w3.org
On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 13:43, Bert Bos wrote: >> 4) Section 1, par. 3. "[...] document that consists of XSL Formatting >> Objects, XHTML table mark-up, SVG diagrams, and MathML equations." Such >> a document will probably never exist. >> I'm not so sure. PassiveTeX can recognize MathML markup in XSL-FO. FOP can recognize SVG in XSL-FO. It's entirely possible we may one day have a processor that recognizes all three at once. XSL-FO really doesn't cover the presentational range that SVG and MathML do. A document that includes text, pictures, and equations really needs all three. MathML has two vocabularies: presentation and content. Only the presentation half is well supported by current software. SVG is really nothing but presentation, even more than XSL-FO. For example, a table of numbers is much more repurposible than an SVG picture that shows a pire chart or a line graph of the numbers. XHTML tables probably wouldn't be included, both because XSL-FO has its own tables syntax and because XSL-FO and HTML serve the same purpose: formatting text for presentation to a human reader. You'd pick one or the other but not both. I do not think XSL-FO is any more or less semantic than HTML. It is more complex and more powerful; but there's no true semantic difference between a fo:block and an HTML div or a fo:table and HTML table. The same arguments being made for deprecating XSL-FO on the Web equally well apply to HTML. I think that's a non-starter. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0596002920/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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