[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> I agree that css has matured to a point where it is capable of >>> _pretty-good-presentation_, and has the advantage that it's a fairly >>> simple concept that can easily be mastered by (say) web page designers. >> Right, this is the key point for me. We don't need transformations and >> we need to stick with what we know so XSLT is out. > > DocBook+XSLT is great when you are doing books and papers. It may > be overkill for 1 pagers. > > You guys raise an interesting point....Has CSS matured to where > you can do heavy duty stuff like books and publication papers > in XHTML+CSS?
I would say it has a ways to go to meet "heavy duty" expectations, although it's getting there -- see http://www.princexml.com/news/ <quote> In April 2005, Addison-Wesley published the third edition of Cascading Stylesheets - Designing for the Web by Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos. The book was written in HTML, styled with CSS, and formatted to PDF by Prince. </quote> css3 should add a lot more print capabilities Of course, css2 is yet quite a ways from ubiquity. ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
