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> I can only imagine where we'd be now if DSSSL had won over CSS We probably wouldn't have dynamic HTML then. DSSSL is basically the same idea as the XSLT/FO
by goto11 6y ago
> I can only imagine where we'd be now if DSSSL had won over CSS
We probably wouldn't have dynamic HTML then.
DSSSL is basically the same idea as the XSLT/FO where document in semantic markup is transformed into a different purely presentational markup language (like PDF if it was SGML-based). It is a one-way operation on the whole document, and made totally sense for the intended use case which was to prepare document for print publishing.
- foobiekr 6y agoI did a lot of XSLT at one point. I think if I still had to do it I'd need to be on medication. Conceptually, I have no issue. Tree-to-tree transformations is a perfectly good concept and you use them a lot, especially if you do work that involves a lot of ASTs, for example. But the specifics matter, and XSLT was designed to be infuriating and punishing and the tools are terrible.