The Next Stage in Composition -- McIlroy

Easy Style Sheets

Eliot Kimber of ISOGEN is a supporter, and says that…"creating an XSLT- and FO-based style sheet requires about one half the effort of creating the equivalent style sheet in a proprietary system. In addition, the incremental cost of adding new document types or new layouts to an existing family of document types or layouts goes down over time as you refine your XSLT code to be more modular, making it easier to add new functionality or new input or output choices. No other SGML- or XML-based composition system has this characteristic."