- From: Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca>
- Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:08:53 -0400
- To: public-ppl@w3.org
+1 for reviewing the CSS specs and XSL-FO spec(s) and looking for conflicts and agreement. One of my goals in joining this group is to help formulate a better message for the raison-d'etre of XSL. I like Ken Holman's http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect3/whyfo.html in Dave's pages; a lot of that is relevant still if somewhat dated, and maybe we can reuse nuggets of that. I know I got frustrated many years ago over the apparent non-communication between XSL and CSS camps in terms of strategy. It's disheartening to work on something when other folks appear to be headed towards duplicating your effort. As a first step in establishing a clear XSL(-FO) message I figure it makes sense to determine where positive and negative overlap exists. Arved On 12-03-08 03:30 PM, Tony Graham wrote: > On Thu, March 8, 2012 7:00 pm, Innovimax SARL wrote: > ... >> I'm trying to gather people interested into Paginated Layout and hence >> we'll see how things come > Count me in. IMO there are probably few people who use XSL-FO who don't > also use CSS, though the reverse is not true. There's also CSS specs in > the works that deal more with paginated layout, there's CSS formatters, > there's translators between CSS and XSL-FO, and there's formatters that > handle both CSS and XSL-FO. > > However, I think that if this CG had been proposed as being both for > XSL-FO and CSS it would have fallen between two stools and gotten less > uptake than it has. I'm not opposed to changing the writing on our barn > wall over time, however. > >> I thing that trying to ignore the work done by CSS is a huge mistake (the >> same W3C has already done with XHTML2 and WhatWG), whether we think the >> work done is good/finished/usable etc. > I agree. > >> So finding the good fit of each of the different attempt to solve the >> Print >> and Page Layout is a good start and seems the natural fit for a Community >> Group in order to find the "next step" > One possible role for the CG would be to crowd-source a review of the CSS > specs and look for commonality/conflict with XSL-FO and its requirements. > > Regards, > > > Tony. > >
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