Subject: Re: XSL Requirements (was: Microsoft extensions to XSL)
From: "James Tauber" <jtauber@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 20:15:38 +0800
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From: Oren Ben-Kiki <oren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>My bet is that the formatting part of XSL would just wither away.
I hope not. If XML is going to be used for serious printing work, you need
XSL and not CSS.
Let me quote from Jon Bosak recently on xml-dev talking about the kind of
complexity needed by print publishing and planned for XSL:
That's not complex. Complex is multiple columns, interleaved column
sets with multiple text flows, footnote zones, synchronized
marginalia, math formatting, mixed vertical and horizontal writing
directions -- in other words, the stuff you need in order to do
genuinely internationalized automated print publishing.
James
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