[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes. You store your data with a meaningful structural markup like
DocBook. Then you can control *presentation* details to your
heart's content with XSLT crap.
We will not be storing any data. These documents will be generated off
of data from MySQL in a one-off process. If we need them again we can
regenerate them. I'm not sure what variety of XML we will be using but
XHTML would be preferable because that is what our people know. I am
still trying to figure out what XSLT really is and its relationship to
CSS. Nobody here knows XSLT or even what it really is. Some googling
produces:
http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/WhatIsXSL.html
So XSL really has little to do with CSS. Based upon the requirements it
looks like this stuff won't work for us. We don't want our graphics
design people to have to learn XSLT.
But if anyone else is interested in pursuing this for some reason I did
find a decent looking way of turning XSL-FO into PDF:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/
So why is there CSS and XSL? Is it that CSS was invented for the web and
then they decided they really needed a general purpose standard to apply
to all XML documents not just XHTML?
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A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right
Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text
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