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An Be"Longtime readers of XML.com will remember the battles between XSL and CSS that took place in these columns in 1999 and that were memorialized in XSL and CSS: One Year Later. Since then, the two languages have coexisted in relative peace: CSS is now used to style most web sites, XSLT (the transformation part of XSL) is used by many server-side, and XSL-FO (the formatting part of XSL) has found a niche in the printing industry.
A recent entry in the blog of a web luminary may signal the start of a second round of hostilities. Norman Walsh, a member of the W3C's Technical Architecture Group and co-author of the W3C's Web Architecture document (WebArch), recently blogged:
... web browsers suck at printing. ... And CSS is never going to fix it. Did you hear me? CSS is never going to fix it.
It's unclear if this statement is a prediction or a threat. Or just blogging on a bad day. Anyway, the pronounciation of CSS' printing ineptness gives us a splendid opportunity to explain why CSS is a better language than XSL for most printing needs. As we have just used CSS to style a 400-page book which will be published later this year (Cascading Stylesheets, designing for the web by Håkon Lie and Bert Bos, 3rd ed, forthcoming from Addison-Wesley, this year), this is not purely an academic excercise in stylesheet linguistics. So, would-be authors should continue reading." -
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A recent entry in the blog of a web luminary may signal the start of a second round of hostilities. Norman Walsh, a member of the W3C's Technical Architecture Group and co-author of the W3C's Web Architecture document (WebArch), recently blogged: ... web browsers suck at printing. ... And CSS is never going to fix it. Did you hear me? CSS is never going to fix it. It's unclear if this statement is a prediction or a threat. Or just blogging on a bad day. Anyway, the pronounciation of CSS' printing ineptness gives us a splendid opportunity to explain why CSS is a better language than XSL for most printing needs. As we have just used CSS to style a 400-page book which will be published later this year (Cascading Stylesheets, designing for the web by Håkon Lie and Bert Bos, 3rd ed, forthcoming from Addison-Wesley, this year), this is not purely an academic excercise in stylesheet linguistics. So, would-be authors should continue reading.
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