Subject: Re: Observation From: Paul Prescod <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 08:44:13 -0600 |
Didier PH Martin wrote: > > HI Paul, > > So you mean that actual XSL implementation do not inlude formating objects > and this is why I don't see a lot of scripts with that. Do I reflect well > what you mean? The XSL implementations can create XML documents that contain the formatting objects, but they cannot render those to a screen or convert them to a file format that CAN be rendered on a screen. > If that is the case, XSL seems popular for its template more than for the > formatting objects. That's true, but perhaps only because the transformation language implementations *exist* and the formatting object renderers *do not*. Rendering formatting objects is a much more challenging job than implementing the transformation language. And there is a lot of work to be done on polishing those formatting objects. > If that is the case, always, DSSSL was not so popular > not necessarily because of parenthesis but because people seems to prefer > template based stuff. DSSSL's make expressions are very much like templates. They just use a different syntax. There are various reasons that DSSSL might not be as popular. Parentheses are part of it. Programmability makes it hard to implement and harder to implement efficiently. The fact that it comes from ISO makes it "uncool." Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco So what if one dark midnight less than a year from now, millions of computers around the world suddenly grind to a halt? My computer grinds to a halt several times a day. ... [Forget Y2K] We're ignoring a much bigger bug problem that's hiding, well, right under our noses. Call it the Y-Does-My-Computer-Crash-Three-Times-A-Day Problem. - http://www.upside.com/David_Futrelle/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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