Are CSS over ???

In article <u0at61t82qop.c7y6mtyreqkj$.dlg (AT) 40tude (DOT) net>,
Mark Parnell <webmaster (AT) clarkecomputers (DOT) com.au> wrote:

Not that there is anything wrong with XML and XSL

But there is something wrong with XSL!

* Having a syntax for formatting objects makes it possible to
deliver formatting objects over the network. This is an
accessibility problem compared to delivering structurally
marked up content with an optional style sheet.
http://people.opera.com/howcome/1999/foch.html

* CSS selectors can be (and have been) efficiently implemented
even when there are dynamic changes to the document tree.
XPath selectors, on the other hand, can have dependencies
that make matching inefficient.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/...3Jun/0118.html

* You can't make changes to the input tree and have the changes
reflected in the output tree without retransforming the
entire document after each change.

* Although the XML syntax is nice for marking up text, it is
awkward as a programming language syntax. (YMMV, of course.)

--
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen (AT) iki (DOT) fi
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[followup trimmed to c.i.w.a.stylesheets]

hholidayy wrote:

Hi,
I'm very new to web designing
I'm designing my first web site for a friend of mind that has a small
business
I recently finished a book on HTML and started playing in Dreamweaver MX
Then realize there was a faster and more efficient way to do things with
CSS

So I started self-learning CSS, about a week ago
Today, while I was studying my CSS book at work...a programmer from my
firm said to me...

" What the hell are you doing....CSS !!!, those are over, you're loosing
your time! You should learn XML and XSL, that's the new thing !!!!!"

XML and XSL do not replace CSS. Neither does CSS replace HTML. They are
completely different technologies designed to fulfill completely different
roles.

I tried to find info on the Web about "The Famous Death of CSS !!!!" and I
realy don't come up with anything.
I also took a brief look at the XML "world", and I don't really see it has
a replacement but more has a add-on; a supplement to the HTML-CSS world
already in place.

XML is a replacement for SGML, not HTML.

CSS is going to be with us for a good long while.

Now, my friend "programming genius i know it all"...was he a lunatic that
should stay in his Delphi World, or am I miss something here and loosing
my time learning CSS????

He's a lunatic who should stick to his own world.

--
Shawn K. Quinn