Subject: [xsl] XSL-FO From: roger.day@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:19:35 +0100 |
At 04/07/2001 12:00:24, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: # > That's an interesting question - what is the overlap between XSL & CSS? # # The question was about using XSLT to generate HTML so the overlap # between XSLT and CSS is essentially none. # # There is of course some overlap in functionality between XSL-FO and CSS # but that's a different thread. but which I -am- interested in - just what is the overlap? Or is there a document you can point me at? # > For example, I might want to have style sheets for displaying HTML documents # > (and these documents have been transformed from XML); how does this "play" into # > translating the XML into, say, PDF? Can I have CSS for the XML documents? # # # You can have CSS for XML documents, but unless your XML is structurally # a lot like HTML there isn't much point, CSS can only decorate an # existing tree with displaay properties, it can't re-arrange the tree # so if you need to generate and re-arrange text while displaying the XML # you'll need something like XSLT. If on the other hand you just have a # simple XML format that maps directly to CSS objects like paragraphs, # tables etc, you may be able to do it with just css. How do you handle display properties with XSLT? I think I'm missing something here... Roger XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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