Re: ITP: xslj, a XSL processor (XSL is one of the stylesheet format of XML)

[Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 17 June 1999, at 12 h 24, the keyboard of Jules Bean
> <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I thought flow objects had been abandoned, and XSL was now exclusively
> > an XML translation language?
> 
> Do we have an authoritative XML guru on Debian? I'm not and I begin to be a
> bit fedup with stylesheets in XML. We have now three proposals, one based on
> flow objects (DSSSL), one which is not (CSS) and one which hesitates (XSL).

http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/

And read (lots).  The issues are complex.

In brief, DSSSL is considered outdated (by some) CSS is too simple for
print-media (but fine for online media) and XSL is fledgling but
promising.  For XSL to take off, IMO, we need an XML doc-type which has
a simple mapping into TeX, so that XSl stylesheets can convert to this
doc-type, which can then be rendered.

Jules

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