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Ken, G. Ken Holman wrote: > I cannot subscribe to your conclusion that "FO is far too complex and > verbose" ... it is but a hierarchical node tree expression of the > semantics to apply to the contained content ... and XML is the best way > there is to express hierarchies ... and lengthy multi-property > CSS-style-like attribute expressions are not at all hierarchical. What I had in mind is avoidance of redundancy in presentation information, in much the same way htm:div elements with 'class' or 'style' attributes are used instead of htm:font and htm:center. >> Just my quarter of a euro. > > I think your debate is far more worthwhile than this, though I don't > agree with your conclusions. Thanks. Well, reading a friendly reply like yours, made me try and find arguments against myself. What came out of this is simply that XSL-FO presentation info can be transformed via XSLT, something that would be almost impossible by using CSS notation for that information... > I hope this is considered helpful. It is. Kindest regards, Manos
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