- From: Fotis Jannidis <fotis.jannidis@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:23:14 +0100
- To: www-xsl-fo@w3.org
> > >Final thought: do users believe that formatter flexibility in also > accepting CSS would be a boon? The formatting model is shared (in theory) > between CSS and XSL-FO. A formatter that accepts CSS-styled XML could > present pretty much the same formatting-object tree to the formatter as we > get through FO. Or so goes the possible argument. Is consideration of this > worthwhile? What do people think? > > > > For someone without the bandwidth to take on board fo's, CSS might be an > easy in? > > I think such a user would soon see the restrictions of CSS1 or even 2. > > If you were talking 3 then perhaps yes. > > Regards DaveP > > Right, I think we would have to be talking about CSS3 to make this > realistic. We're still talking (IMHO) about printing here, mainly > (high-quality output); let Web browsers deal with HTML... > > Regards, > Arved Sandstrom I am not convinced that this is true, because even css1 + some css2 can be enough to output simple documents. I assume that an print formatter which accepts xml + css would be a good tool for many web people who start to move in the direction of xml. Fotis Jannidis
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