- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 15:18:30 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
At 12:43 PM 10/2/00 +0000, Matthew Brealey wrote: >One spec good, two specs bad. XSL-FO takes CSS warts and all: when I was reading >through it I noticed it had adopted quite a few errors from CSS - it really >doesn\'t make sense to have one spec mirroring the other; errors and differences >will creep in and be a nightmare to maintain. I asked a long while ago about the prospect of creating a 'formatting properties' document that included properties for both CSS and XSL, which they could then implement using their different approaches. CSS could use selectors and annotation, while XSL could rely on XSLT transformation. That didn't seem to go over too well, though I never quite figured out why. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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