Re: XSLT like CSS with media and different styles

Bernd Fuhrmann wrote:
> Axel Hecht wrote:
> 
>> This is not implemented, and I don't see us doing it, really.
>>
>> Note that doing a new transform for printing would nuke all form 
>> entries in a page, for example, which would be a very unexpected 
>> behaviour.
> 
> 
> Yes, this would certainly be difficult. To be honest, I have no idea how 
> it is currently done (especially handling script-generated content) or 
> if such a thing could be solved.
> 
>> I'd suggest that you do one transform, and then work with CSS.
> 
> 
> That is what I was about to do now. But it is sometimes nasty because 
> you need to have all your structural changes in advance and then select 
> via display:none and so on which one you want to have. This is not good. 
> It's also a waste of resources.
> 
>> There is no support for alternative stylesheets on XSLT either. Not 
>> sure what the specs would say on that.
> 
> 
> The reason why I thought that it might be possible is this one:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-stylesheet/
> 
> This document says something about an alternative way to use CSS (via 
> processing instruction). It does not say, however that this is limited 
> to CSS. There is not much difference to specifying an XSLT stylesheet. 
> So I thought it would be just logic to have XSLT stylesheets handled in 
> the same way. It would certainly be useful, because one could change the 
> actual structure of a document depending on the media.
> 
> Just think you would have a look at a site with your browser 
> (media=screen) that contains some applet. Then you want to print that 
> site and get a different document that explains e.g. different states of 
> that applet, so you wont miss anything important. To have such thing it 
> would be useful (though not absolutely necessary) to have 
> media-dependant XSLTs.

Given the number of problems wrt the common printing experience, plus 
the possible workaround by using CSS, I don't think it's worth the hassle.

Axel