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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. XSLT is for transformation by Pascal+Sartoretti · · Score: 5, Informative
    As an XSLT developer, I agree that CSS is simpler and more readable. However: the "T" in XSLT stands for "transformation". It means that you can do things like generating a table of contents, a table of figures, etc. which would not be possible with just CSS.

    The bottom line (at least for me): if you can do it with CSS, do it with CSS. But there are some cases where you will need XSLT.