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In the past I've written a browser and I've worked on FOP. In both cases I seem to be writing the same code over and over again. I keep coming to the conclusion that the XML/HTML world doesn't have the concept of universal device drivers in place. 1) Would it be possible to use SVG as the lowest level rendering spec and then describe XSL-FO and CSS in terms of actions against the SVG DOM? In other words, could SVG be the device driver language? 2) If CSS and XSL-FO end up specifying exactly the same formatting model, are any of the browsers going to allow the XLS-FO syntax for controlling the formatting objects? 3) When CSS3 is complete are people only going to write web pages using only the <SPAN> tag and then control everything from CSS? wouldn't XSL be nicer? 4) I'm dreaming on this one -- if SVG is presenting the UI in the browser and it was generated by transforming XML via XSL-FO, and I get an event in the SVG, can I attach the event handling code the input XML? Given my experience I believe the success of XSL-FO is dependent on it's integration into a unified W3C rendering model. From the outside looking in, it appears to me that W3C isn't really moving in that direction. Jon Smirl jonsmirl@m... *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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