- From: Daniel Glazman <glazou_2000@yahoo.fr>
- Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 09:54:30 +0200
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- CC: Ian Hickson <ianh@netscape.com>, www-style@w3.org
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > So development of XSL is waste of time? Yes, absolutely. It is also a waste of neurons. In the W3C and between the WGs, it is a waste of money and energy. My personal opinion only, of course. IMO, XML+XSLT+CSS will be the market leader for all-days- life solutions. Industry/Defense will probably need XML+XSLT+XSL but the requirements can be very different : no need for dynamic browsers. > XML documents can be transformed to > XHTML documents and styled with CSS equally so noone needs XSL? Like many others, I express a strong interest in XSLT and believe that XSL FOs is a dead duck... > Why didn't > anyone notice that and stopped XSL development? Once again, let's make the difference between transformations and styles. XSLT is a running thing. XSL FOs will hardly appear in any good-quality browser. > | What's more, XSL has not even reached version 1.0 yet. CSS is currently in > | the development of it's third revision. > > You do not want to tell me, the higher the version number is, the better the > technologie. In a world of standards, yes. CSS reaches level 3 because implementors contributed to levels 1, 2 and 3. Because CSS level 1 is now fully implemented, because CSS 2 support is getting better and better. Because browsers and web-tools vendors are all involved in the standardization process of CSS. I still have no XSL FOs rendering engine on my laptop, sorry. There is another interesting argument : I started working in the SGML/DSSSL world more than ten years ago. The people now pushing XSL styles are the people who were calling for a clear and strict separation between content and style. Now, with the XML-everywhere fever, we are just doing the contrary, gathering content and style in a single, integrated instance. You can say that CSS obliges to have another parser. Yes. So what ? It is a so simple parser that a student can write it as the first item in his final project. Using XSL FOs and reusing the XML parser does not really help : the implementation of XSL FOs is still very complex. Last but not least : CSS is simple, like HTML was simple in the early days. Anyone can write a simple stylesheet using notepad. What about XSL formatting objects, or even XSLT ? </Daniel> _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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