RE: [docbook] Whatever happened too CSS+XML?

["Peter Ring" <PRI@magnus.dk>]

> When CSS gets implemented

like, say

  Prince 
  http://www.princexml.com/

  CSSToXSLFO
  http://www.re.be/css2xslfo/

  Flying Saucer  
  https://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net/

  KHTML 3.4
  http://www.konqueror.org/css/

  Opera 8
  http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/#css

  Mozilla
  http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/CSS

  XXE
  http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/features.html

  XMetaL
  http://www.xmetal.com/en_us/products/xmetal_author/customized_user_interfaces.x


> When CSS is accepted

like, say

  Open eBook
  http://www.openebook.org/oebps/oebps1.2/download/oeb12-xhtml.htm#sec1.3.4

  OpenReader
  http://www.openreader.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=72&Itemid=157    

  Microsoft Reader Authoring Guides, Markup Guide
  http://www.microsoft.com/reader/developers/downloads/markup.asp

  Standards and CSS in IE
  http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/07/29/445242.aspx

  Web Content Accessibility
  http://usability.gov/accessibility/
  http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
  http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-CSS-TECHS/

  Styling SVG with CSS
  http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/styling.html#StylingWithCSS

  XHTML 2.0 user agent rendering behaviour specified using CSS2
  http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/xhtml2-style.html#a_stylesheet

  Linking behaviour described in terms of CSS
  http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-hyperlinks/


> It still won't have 10% of the capability of XSLT.

To the best of my knowledge, XSLT does not actually render anything. Using XSLT to transform XML into Netscape 4.7-compatible tag soup HTML is -- at best -- a wasted effort.

An old article with a conclusion that still holds true

  What Place Has CSS in the XML World?
  http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/03/08/style/


Kind regards
Peter Ring

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Pawson [mailto:davep@dpawson.co.uk]
> Sent: 7. november 2005 19:21
> To: Steven T. Hatton
> Cc: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [docbook] Whatever happened too CSS+XML?
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 17:05 -0500, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> > A few years back I was looking at this stuff, and never 
> understood why people 
> > weren't more interested in it. Basically, you should be 
> able to server a 
> > DocBook document on the web without every creating XHTML.  
> When I consider 
> > the effort that has been put into creating XSLT stylesheets 
> to generate 
> > XHTML, it seems the same amount of effort (or considerably 
> less) could 
> > produce XML + CSS that would have as much functionality as 
> any XHTML produced 
> > from the DocBook XML.
> 
> Rubbish.
> When CSS gets implemented
> When CSS is accepted
> It still won't have 10% of the capability of XSLT.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards, 
> 
> Dave Pawson
> XSLT + Docbook FAQ
> http://www.dpawson.co.uk
> 
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