Re: Stylesheets [was: Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: Help API for GNOME 2.0]

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 01:24:39PM -0500, Dan Mueth wrote:
> > Do you cache chunking data or HTML?  Would we need to share stylesheets.
> 
> We haven't discussed how we should deal with stylesheets, so we should put
> a little thought into this.  What do we want?
> 
> (1) We use one stylesheet for all documents
> (2) Each group of docs (eg. GNOME docs, KDE docs, LDP docs) gets one
> stylesheet
> (3) Each document/package is able to specify and/or supply its own
> stylesheet.
> 
> I always thought we would at least have #2, so that GNOME docs could put a
> little footprint icon at the top and KDE docs could put their logo at the
> top if they wanted.  However, I could also imagine things getting really
> messy if we allowed a lot of configurability.
> 
> Thoughts?

  Seems to me that you forget the very important point that most
stylesheets are based on an existing core which is reused by all
different styles (only part of the default formatting are overriden
to provide a given style). Most of the XSLT code is Norm Walsh one and
MUST be shared. Some extensions on top of it may be shared but will be
relatively small in comparison.

Daniel

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