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Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook XSL 1.67.0 released


On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Elliotte Harold wrote:

Longer term, I'd also think about whether a few of these like systemitem, filename, and email need to be indicated with <span style="font-style: monospace"> instead of using code or samp at all.

I'd prefer to avoid hard-coding style attributes into the resulting [X]HTML whenever possible.


It's currently pretty easy to set up CSS stylesheets using the class name (e.g., code.systemitem {blah;}).

Once the output is <span style="blah">, then anyone who wants a non-default style is forced into writing a custom XSL template to handle systemitem, filename, or whatever. For sites that rely on alternate CSS stylesheets, the workload would be even larger.

It seems to me that it's good practice to have the DocBook XSL stylesheets combine the appropriate [X]HTML tag with a class attribute, rather than a generic span tag with a style attribute, whenever possible.

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein@madboa.com>


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