Hello
The message is not true and it will bring bad influence to the public.
In fact, CSS will never replace XSL-FO completely, even if some portion
of CSS overlaps XSL-FO.
The usage of HTML tags is too much diversified to become a standard
for printing. IE sometimes even neglects attribute values of HTML tag.
If you wish to use HTML+CSS for printing, you must be quite careful
about the usage of tags and attribute values. If the printing
layout is not fixed by a creator, how these method will be used for
printing ?
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Tokushige Kobayashi
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Below is an excerpt of an explanation for XSLT, took out from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/htm/xslt_starter_54dw.asp:
"XSL is now generally referred to as XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO), to
distinguish it from XSLT. The future of XSL-FO as a standard is uncertain,
because much of its functionality overlaps with that provided by cascading
style sheets (CSS) and the HTML tag set. If cross-vendor compatibility is
important, you might want to avoid XSL-FO until it becomes a standard fully
accepted by the Worldwide Web Consortium."
Can I consider valid the declaration above? I really want to use XLS-FO as
standard in the company I work for, as base document format for report
generation, but this declaration could make me hesitate to. I would
appreciate any thoughts.
Thank you.
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