RE: minor formulation suggestion ((X)HTML not presentational)

> http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#d0e165
> "The term stylesheet reflects the fact that one of the 
> important roles 
> of XSLT is to add styling information to an XML source document, by 
> transforming it into a document consisting of XSL formatting objects 
> (see [XSL Formatting Objects]), or into another presentation-oriented 
> format such as HTML, XHTML, or SVG."
> 
> Current versions of HTML/XHTML are (luckily) only marginally 
> concerned 
> with presentation, but mainly with structure and semantics.

The reason for converting a document to HTML/XHTML is almost without
exception in order to present it to a human reader. I agree that the
presentation is described at a fairly abstract level, but it's still
presentation.
> 
> BTW, instead of URLs like
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#d0e165 , I'd prefer more 
> meaningful URLs like http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#what_is_xslt
> 

I've recently gone through the XML to make sure that all sections have
meaningful IDs. Thanks for the comment.

Michael Kay

Received on Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:39:55 UTC