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On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 10:16, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> That would suggest that the problem today is not
> technical or political, but a matter of education.
> There simply are XML languages for which CSS is
> not useful or available. There are applications
> of CSS which are simpler and more elegant. Without
> discrimination, one will stumble.
>
But there is also one big application -- documents on the web, for which
good CSS support would be a major improvement. While there is no
_technical_ problem with using two stylesheets, it is a cost.
Like Simon, I largely deal with documents that are basically human
readable as created. Except for the TOC and indexes (and indexes tend to
be replaced by links and searches anyway), they merely need to be
prettyprinted. Without support for generated text and counters my
clients have to have two stylesheets rather than one. I would bet that
half the XSLT I deal with would go away with those two enhancements.
Further, half the remainder would also go away: There's lots of other
code in the applications that could transform (or create right the first
time) the XML for CSS styling, if we didn't have to have the XSLT
anyway.
I accept that for most xml developers it's not a big problem. They seem
to mostly be moving information between computers. For those
applications which have a human at the beginning and the end, it's a
pain in the neck and a pain in the wallet.
Frank
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