Subject: Re: Why Core Flow Objects
From: "Frank Boumphrey" <bckman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 10:13:23 -0700
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Yes, but all you've done is pass on a core flow object i.e P in a different
form. The user agent has to know how to format the out put. If it doesn't
get any thing it usually will use a default flow object, probably an inline
flow object, but the flow object is still there.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: Francois Belanger <francois@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, April 09, 1998 6:36 AM
Subject: Why Core Flow Objects
>I'm looking at different parsers and stylesheet and see constantly the
>need for Core Flow Objects.
>
>I'd like to understand (and could not find the answer in XSL spec) why
>such as thing is needed. I see it as a barrier to adoption more than
>anything else as one has to wait for Core Flow Object to be available and
>supported by a parser to generate different file formats from XML.
>
>In other words, what's the difference between those two rules (the second
>probaly being faster and simpler to parse and also does not need to
>contain XML-compliant HTML):
>
><rule>
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> <TITLE>Something</TITLE>
> </HEAD>
> <BODY bgcolor="#FC9A27" link="#000000" vlink="#9F0000">
> <children/>
> <IMG src="logo.gif" />
><P><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="2">Legal stuff.</FONT></P>
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
></rule>
>
>
><rule>
> <root/>
><![CDATA[
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> <TITLE>Something</TITLE>
> </HEAD>
> <BODY bgcolor="#FC9A27" link="#000000" vlink="#9F0000">
>]]>
> <children/>
><![CDATA[
><P><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="2">Legal stuff.</FONT></P>
> <IMG src="logo.gif">
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
>]]>
></rule>
>
>If the second rule is valid (I think it is), then one can create any kind
>of output using CDATA sections and do away with Core Flow Objects.
>
>Is this a good approach? Or is it the equivalent of the one-pixel GIF
>hack in HTML and defeats the purpose of XSL?
>
>
>
>Francois Belanger
>Sitepak, Bringing Internet Business into Focus
>http://www.sitepak.com
>
>
>
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>
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