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At 15:03 15/11/2001 +0000, David Carlisle wrote: >(Incidentally the lack of a transformation in opera seemed to account >for many of the problems Sean McGrath reported using XML in Opera) For the records, I don't see how XSL/XSLT helps solve most of the sample problems that I raised in the e-mail. Opera just happens to be the browser I am playing with XML rendering in. CSS2 just happens to be the rendering technology. XSLT is better than CSS2 in some ways and worse in others but it is tangential to the core issues IMHO. Sean For displaying arbitrary XML it seems that a transformation language is always going to be required. It doesn't have to be XSLT: dsssl, ominimark perl, any programming language with dom access, would all do. But you need _something_ unless your XML is so close to HTML that CSS can be used. The problems that you mentioned with tables and linking are more or less inevitable if you are not using a transformation language. The other problems that you mentioned (resolving DTD references and restricting character sets) are not related to the styling language (and I have the same problems, and don't have any solution:-) David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
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