RE: the advantage of XSL (was Re: website contender (beta))

[Charles Goodwin <charlie xwt org>]

On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 06:24, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Just out of curiousity, why would one want or need XSLT to achieve this? 
> Wouldn't the use of CSS be better suited for this task? You should be able 
> to get pretty much complete separation of data from its presentation.

Not really.  CSS is flexible but it only allows you to alter the visual
appearance, not the visual structure of the page.  XSLT allows you to
alter both.  Even the slightlest variations in visual structure can
provide a nightmare for CSS.  Incidently, CSS would not be as inflexible
if the major browsers properly and consistently supported it.  But they
don't.
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- Charlie

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