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Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL

Posted by michael on from the anything-you-can-do-i-can-do-better dept.

An anonymous contributor writes "XML.com just published an article titled Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL written by Michael Day and Håkon Wium Lie. The article was written in response to Norm Walsh's claim that CSS will never fix [printing]. Did you hear me? CSS will never fix it!. The article shows how a 100-line CSS style sheet gives you the same formatted version of W3C's Webarch as the 1000-line XSL style sheet by using Prince."

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  1. Re:Tru Dat by Foofoobar · · Score: 2, Funny

    How do I propose they do that? Easy.

    Step 1: Purchase the bullwhip.
    Step 2: Firmly grasp bullwhip
    Step 3: Purchase a ticket to Redmond, Wa
    Step 4: Start swinging!

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  2. Free? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Free for any purpose eh? This will go well for the interface to my baby mulching machine.

  3. There is no way I am even attempting to RTFA... by jborawski · · Score: 1, Funny

    I mean /. topics usually contain several links, but that is just link overload...

  4. Nerd fight!!! by revery · · Score: 2, Funny

    an article titled Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL written by Michael Day and Håkon Wium Lie. The article was written in response to Norm Walsh's claim that CSS will never fix [printing]. Did you hear me? CSS will never fix it!".

    Let the hair pulling and the name calling begin.

  5. It's apparently already slashdotted. by jemfinch · · Score: 3, Funny
    The second link in the story (for the 1000-line XSL stylesheet) seems to be slashdotted already. The best part is that when I tried to go there, I got

    XML parsing error

    In nice, big text. Way to hold the the XSL fort, guys!

    Jeremy
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  6. Re:Tru Dat by chris_mahan · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's no enforcement, that's $250 a hour!

    Oh, did I just make a silly comment? Sorry... (again)

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    "Piter, too, is dead."

  7. Proof that CSS is better than XSL by Sowbug · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://zengarden.20megsfree.com/

  8. Re:Tru Dat by chris_mahan · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, if the W3 had a 50 million dollars prize for the first fully CSS1+2+3 compliant browser, people would fall over themselves to build the browser.

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    "Piter, too, is dead."

  9. What Slashdot needs by digitalgiblet · · Score: 2, Funny
    You know what /. needs?

    Two competing technical ideas so that everyone can line up behind one or the other and argue which is better.

    I'm really tired of seeing everyone here just politely agreeing with one another in such a single-minded way.

    Ever since the debates over vi/emacs, linux/windows, tastes great/less filling, etc. were all settled, there just haven't been any good arguments here.