Re: [docbook] Whatever happened too CSS+XML?

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Dave Pawson <>
Date
2005-11-07T18:21:29+00:00
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1131387656.3368.6.camel@marge
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Re: [docbook] Whatever happened too CSS+XML?
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 17:05 -0500, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> A few years back I was looking at this stuff, and never understood why people 
> weren't more interested in it. Basically, you should be able to server a 
> DocBook document on the web without every creating XHTML.  When I consider 
> the effort that has been put into creating XSLT stylesheets to generate 
> XHTML, it seems the same amount of effort (or considerably less) could 
> produce XML + CSS that would have as much functionality as any XHTML produced 
> from the DocBook XML.

Rubbish.
When CSS gets implemented
When CSS is accepted
It still won't have 10% of the capability of XSLT.


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Dave Pawson
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