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   Re: [xml-dev] XSLT vs. CSS (Re: Indexing)

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On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> At 07:00 PM 7/8/2003 -0400, Mike Kozlowski wrote:
> >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.
>
> XSLT is part of a larger set of formatting tools, called XSL, and using
> XSLT to generate font-tag formatted HTML has always been an option for
> those who can't use XSL-FO for whatever reason.

That XSLT is the transformation component of a complete stylesheet suite,
and that XSL-FO is the part of that suite that most closely approximates
CSS's capabilities, ought to make it even more clear that XSLT is
complementary to CSS.  It was, after all, explicitly designed to be
complementary to XSL-FO.

XSL-FO competes with CSS, yes.  HTML 3.2's formatting capabilities compete
with CSS, yes.  And XSLT is complementary with XSL-FO, HTML 3.2, and CSS.

-- 
Mike Kozlowski
http://www.klio.org/mlk/





 

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