At 10:23 AM -0500 10/28/03, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>Hmm. I thought Microsoft looked stupid for integrating presentation
>information directly with the markup rather than accepting what I see as
>a much more manageable CSS-based approach.
Good point. It might be interesting to store all the presentation
information in a separate document, but I think here it's at least
arguable that the presentation is a large part of the content.
Therefore it's OK to mix. This is even clearer with SVG and XSL-FO
where appearance is precisely what is being described by the content.
XUL/XAML is a more borderline case though, and it might be
interesting to modify the appearance of a GUI by attaching a
different CSS stylesheet.
The examples of XUL and XAML presented here both mix presentation
information directly with the markup. Neither is superior in this
regard. Thus, to the extent that CSS is directly embedded in the
structure here, for good or bad, XAML's syntax is more appropriate
than XUL's.
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold
Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
