- From: (unknown charset) Ian Hickson <ianh@netscape.com>
- Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 12:15:18 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
- To: (unknown charset) Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- cc: (unknown charset) www-style@w3.org
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >>> So let me ask, has anyone converted >>> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/sample.html >>> to a XSL Stylesheet that transforms XHTML documents into formatting >>> objetcs (as work in progress, of cause, since XSL is still no recommendation)? >> >> [...] your question brings to mind a bigger question: Why Bother? > > Conversion to PDF for printing and document exchange when XHTML+CSS > isn't appropriate. XHTML+XSLT+XSL:FO can do no more than XHTML+XSLT+CSS. Indeed, to quote from the document you mentioned: : Q: But, in order to do high-quality printing we need : transformations. CSS doesn't have transformations and is therefore : unusable. Isn't that why XTL and XFO were developed? : : A: High-quality printing is very hard, and can't be done without looking : at the shape of the glyphs. Neither XFO nor CSS takes this : approach. Instead, they both have the same property/value model and as : long as the properties and values are the same, their potential for : improving printing is the same. Transformations are, if not a : prerequisite of printing, at least a helpful tool. The transformation : step comes before the styling part, and XTL can equally well be used : with CSS as it can with XFO. What's more, XSL has not even reached version 1.0 yet. CSS is currently in the development of it's third revision. > This problem is discussed by Håkon Lie, see > http://www.operasoft.com/people/howcome/1999/foch.html This was published in 1999. I have still not seen a single satisfactory answer to his comments. This issue has also been brought up by David Baron (in a thread entitled "The Supercharged FONT Tag" or some such) and was never answered either. -- Ian Hickson )\ _. - ._.) fL Netscape, Standards Compliance QA /. `- ' ( `--' +1 650 937 6593 `- , ) - > ) \ irc.mozilla.org:Hixie _________________________ (.' \) (.' -' __________
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