- From: Hakon Lie <howcome@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 01:10:35 +0200 (Europe de l'Ouest (Heure d'été))
- To: eric@csfactory.com (Eric W. Sink)
- Cc: Jon.Bosak@eng.Sun.COM (Jon Bosak), www-style@w3.org
Eric W. Sink writes: > >XSL. For details, see > > It appears that I should have been more specific. > > Actually, I do appreciate the reminder that XSL is more powerful. However, > I don't want XSL -- I want CSS. > > Will there be a CSS 3 ? The subtle assertion that XSL is the upgrade path > for CSS 2 is very unappealing. There will be a CSS3. There will also be XSL. The two will coexist. Hard work is being done to ensure that the two will use the same underlying formatting model. There will be a common set of "W3C formatting properties" which can be accessed from both languages. This way implementors can recycle their formatting engines and designers will can recycle their knowledge. We foresee people using CSS if their source documents don't need element reordering or other transformations before being presented to the user. Vice versa, XSL will be used if element reordering or other transformations are required/requested. Regards, -h&kon H ĺ k o n W i u m L i e howcome@w3.org http://www.w3.org/people/howcome World W i d e Web Consortium
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