• To: Frank <frank@b...>
• Subject: Re: XSLT vs. CSS (Re: Indexing)
• From: Dave Pawson <dpawson@n...>
• Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 18:27:57 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <1057771269.1771.84.camel@frank>
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At 13:21 09/07/2003 -0400, Frank wrote:

>The explanation I got from a datahead, who truly had no clue why I
>wanted to style xml, was:
>
>The browser vendors need HTML/CSS, and they need XSLT to make database
>dumps wrapped in pointy brackets human readable (which may as well be
>HTML), so why not just convert all XML to HTML for rendering, and save
>the browser guys the development effort of CSS for XML.

Oh you cynic Frank :-)

But it makes business sense!

regards DaveP 

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