James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > [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.
Here's another evangelical article by the principles of prince: Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL by Håkon Wium Lie, Michael Day January 19, 2005 http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/01/19/print.html They do say that xsl-fo has its value niches (eg, in the printing industry) ..j -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
