- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 20:14:35 -0500
- To: www-svg@w3.org
Bill Wadley wrote: > > Hello! > > I'm wondering what the current thinking is regarding XSL and CSS. I've read > some archived messages by Paul Prescod and Simon St.Laurent > (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/1999Feb/), but can't tell in > which direction the SVG-WG is looking. The basis of the debate was that SVG diagrams are not generalized markup and therefore the usual principles of stylesheet use DO NOT APPLY. SVG is a formatter-specific graphics language. Stylesheet use in SVG document will be rare for the same reason that stylesheets are hardly ever used in vector graphics languages and formatting-specific languages like Word. Most SVG will be generated SVG-creating tools will not encourage and may not even allow stylesheet use. I argued that since most SVG will be generated and stylesheet-less it should be optimized for ease of generation, and should not penalize "inline style" in the way that HTML does (for historically good reason). So no, my position is not that XSL is better for SVG. CSS is great -- just don't make it so difficult to use and process. Stylesheet use should be a valid choice. Inline style should be another. -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "The Reduced * Set (R*S) is a design paradigm promoting simplicity over all other design constraints. R*S may be applied to all seven OSI networking layers. In fact, layers one through six may be simplified to the point of extinction, promoting the ultimate goal of reduced complexity and utility." - http://www.w3.org/1999/04/REC-Reduced-set
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