Re: [ANN] Kludgey workarounds for IE and Netscape

John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Thu, 10 Sep 1998 13:14:56 -0400


Paul Prescod wrote:

> Well, we could require the output to be PDF or PostScript or something,
> but XML seems the most logical choice. The important thing is to recognize
> that we do have to choose *something*.

Granted. But is it so much to ask, to be able to produce well-formed
HTML as well? After all, the XSL draft is speckled with references
to doing so, but well-formed and valid HTML just isn't XML -- even though
with one little allowance, it can become so.

Given the continuing importance of HTML or HTML+CSS as an output
format, this doesn't seem like such a large change.

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