Re: Component/Tools to create XSL/XML

From: Andrew Diabo (aadiabo_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 09:46:12 -0400

Hi Jarle,

Thanks for the clarification on this. Would be nice if there is an universal
tool
out there that can do (X)HTML as well as XSL.

Andrew

"Jarle Stabell" <jarle@remove_stuff_dlogikk_spam_kills_email.com> wrote in
message news:41289044@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Andrew Diabo wrote:
> > Thank you all for taking the time to respond. I guess my limited
> > knowledge of
> > the XSL/XML pair led me to ask this question. I know I can export my
> > data to XML, but I would like to display it in a pretty way such as
> > when viewing the XML file in a web browser. I understand that XSL
> > beautifies the XML file using attributes of some sort like font,
> > color, etc.
>
> In the beginning, the working group who were to develop the XSL standard
> started with the idea they should create something called XSL, which
> were to take an (arbitrary) XML document as input, and produce a
> specific kind of XML document as output (a transformation), which
> included font-info, color-info, all sorts of formatting things necessary
> for display/print.
> During their work they understood that the transformation part could be
> useful in other settings, not only for creating formatted documents, but
> for XML-transformations in general. So they split the thing in two, one
> for the transformation part, called XSLT, and the rest is simply a
> specific kind of XML-document, called XSL-FO (FO=Formatting Objects)
> with predefined visual semantics.
>
> It seems to me that most people who want to visually present their
> XML-documents don't transform them into XSL-FO, but (X)HTML instead.
> Instead of transforming into XSL-FO, one can transform into any XML
> document type with a CSS-style***, which generalizes the case of
> transforming into (X)HTML, as (X)HTML is nothing more than a specific
> document type with a predefined CSS-style***.
> However, I don't think there's much out there able to display XML via
> CSS, therefore (X)HTML might be the only practical solution when it
> comes to XML-CSS at the moment.
>
> For XSL info:
> http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
>
> Cheers,
> Jarle
>
>