- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@eps.inso.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 13:45:44 -0400
- To: bosak@atlantic-83.eng.sun.com
- CC: www-style@w3.org
>| document tree --+----> page layout flow --> rendered representation >| / >| stylesheet -+ > >One of the major realizations that DSSSL forces on you (because >otherwise you can't learn to use it at all) is that document objects >(sections, lists, paragraphs) do not map isomorphically to layout >objects (pages, columns, paragraphs). The two are related closely >enough that you can go a long time without realizing this distinction >until you hit a case where the simple paradigm breaks down. >Rearranging your mental model of what's going on can be quite painful >-- it was for me -- but if you can't get past this hurdle, the complex >cases are intractable. Right, which is why most simple box-based stylesheet formats cannot handle the hard cases.
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