Re: [FrameSGML] Re: What's new in 6.0

[Dan Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:32 PM 3/14/00 +1100, Marcus Carr wrote:
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>Dan Emory wrote:
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>> I don't care whether it's called XSL FU or cascading style sheets or
>> whatever, as long as it's W3C-compliant.
>
>Are you suggesting that the CSS that is currently being created is not
compliant?
>Can you elaborate?
>
>> What I want to see is style
>> information that's derived from the EDD's format rules without the
>> restrictions that currently apply in V5.5.6. Those restrictions are so
>> limiting that the resulting style information is useless.
>
>Details, Dan! How do expect anyone to comment based on that paragraph?
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Here is a direct quote from the Download FrameMaker+SGML 5.5.6 XMLcss Plug-In:

"When you export a structured document to XML use FrameMaker+SGML 5.5.6,
both an XML document and a CSS document are produced. The information in the
CSS document is based on the formatting information in the paragraph catalog
and in the font catalog. If the element names in your FrameMaker+SGML
document do not correspond with the paragraph tags and the charactertags
used to format these elements, the formatting may be inadequate. The XMLcss
plug-in examines the actual formatting used in the FrameMaker+SGML document
and produces a CSS that ties element names to the actual formatting of these
elements. Context-based formatting fules are handled correctly too."

What this means is the every paragraph-type container element in the EDD
must specify a specific paragraph tag in every possible context. Formatting
in format change lists, as well as specifying individual format parameters
within format rules are not picked up in the CSS document. The same goes for
text range elements--Each such element must specify a particular character
tag for each context.

Only an EDD that conforms to the above constraints can produce a
non-anomalous CSS document. But that type of EDD is extremely cumbersome,
and flies in the face of good design practice.
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