Bob,
At 12:06 PM 9/4/2003, you wrote:
Thank you, Andrew. That, unfortunately, is the answer that I expected. I
was hoping for a magic bullet, but, you're right, I don't yet know the
boundaries of xslt. I just started using it two weeks ago.
Welcome to the world of XSL.
Now, if HTML were a display language designed for print output, it might
have some kind of control for portrait-vs.-landscape; but it isn't
(notwithstanding all the printing folks do from browsers), and it doesn't.
If HTML did have such a control, XSLT could generate that code just as it
can generate any other HTML (to XSLT, HTML is just another target tag set).
Thus, the problem is out of scope not because of a limitation of XSLT, but
rather of the target format in this case (HTML).
One reason XSL-FO comes into the picture is that it *is* such a language.
But if users want just to hit "print" on their browser, a whole pipeline to
generate print-friendly output (PDF or whatever) may be overkill. It depends.
Cheers,
Wendell
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