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On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> At 11:55 PM 7/8/2003 +0200, Eric van der Vlist wrote:
> >Yes, that's why they can be seen as complementary.
>
> Complementary to you, perhaps, with the time and energy to invest in both,
> competing to others, who don't have time and energy to scale both learning
> curves or implement both specs.
No matter how much time and energy you have, they can't be anything other
than complementary. They're simply not solving the same problems; if you
need XSLT, CSS won't help; if you need CSS, XSLT won't help.
Take http://www.klio.org/mlk/example.xml as an example, where I'm
displaying an XML file using both XSLT and CSS. There's absolutely no way
to replace the XSLT with CSS, and no way to replace the CSS with XSLT.
The XSLT is modifying the structure of the document, and the CSS is
styling the elements in that structure for visual presentation.
XSLT and CSS, as a pair of technologies, are more like Java and SQL than
they are like Java and Python. Complementary, not competitive.
--
Mike Kozlowski
http://www.klio.org/mlk/
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