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

["Dom Lachowicz" <cinamod hotmail com>]

> 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.

Not really. For a laundry-list of counter examples, see 
http://www.csszengarden.com/. Every site uses the same HTML page but a 
different CSS stylesheet. The pages also work well in MSIE. I do recognize 
that MSIE doesn't have a nearly standards-compliant CSS implementation.

In short, I'm not really in favor of having differently styled HTML pages - 
like one "Microsoft" one, one "Gnome" one, ... I guess I don't see the point 
other than proof that it could be done. But if that's to be the case, I'm 
definitely not in favor of using XSLT to accomplish what you want.

Dom

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