Talk:Document Style Semantics and Specification Language
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CSS vs. DSSSL
Shouldn't the article reveal that for all practical intents and purposes, DSSSL was displaced by CSS in the late 1990s?-- era (Talk | History) 10:50, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
- Not really; they were never players in the same space. DSSSL, like XSL, transforms semantically structured documents into layout specifications; CSS decorates a structure with formatting properties. CSS caught on much more widely due to its simplicity and the fact that its target audience was the Web rather than large-scale publishers, but I don’t think it’s accurate to say that DSSSL was displaced by CSS. — crism (talk) 21:01, 22 February 2009 (UTC)