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Re: The Future of Browser-Bound XML?
- From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian dot rahtz at computing-services dot oxford dot ac dot uk>
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- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 21:44:20 +0100
- Subject: Re: [xsl] The Future of Browser-Bound XML?
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On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 01:34:40PM -0700, Charles Knell wrote:
> CSS is concerned with the appearance of elements on your web page, and
> not their semantics. That's why you can't explain via CSS that one element
> is a link and the other is an inline image.
right, so you cannot put random XML on your web site and
expect to render it with CSS.
> Concepts such as "link" and "inline image" belong to the world of HTML.
> You could alter the appearance of these elements by transforming their
> contents into HTML tags that browsers understand (such as "div", "span",
> "h1") with XSLT, and then alter their appearance by manipulating the
> element's "style" object properties with CSS.
quite. we *have* to transform to HTML, its the only semantics that
web clients understand. CSS is useful for appearance, but there
is more to putting up XML files than appearance.
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