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

[Dave Pawson <dpawson@nildram.co.uk>]

At 13:21 09/07/2003 -0400, Frank wrote:

>The explanation I got from a datahead, who truly had no clue why I
>wanted to style xml, was:
>
>The browser vendors need HTML/CSS, and they need XSLT to make database
>dumps wrapped in pointy brackets human readable (which may as well be
>HTML), so why not just convert all XML to HTML for rendering, and save
>the browser guys the development effort of CSS for XML.

Oh you cynic Frank :-)

But it makes business sense!

regards DaveP