Editing with Style Vincent Quint, Irène Vatton To cite this version: Vincent Quint, Irène Vatton. Editing with Style. ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, Do- cEng 2007, Aug 2007, Winnipeg, Canada. pp.151–160. inria-00175596 HAL Id: inria-00175596 https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00175596 Submitted on 28 Sep 2007 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Editing with Style Vincent Quint Irne Vatton
[email protected] [email protected] INRIA 655 avenue de l'Europe 38334 Saint Ismier, France ABSTRACT Separation of presentation from content is an architectural HTML has popularized the use of style sheets, and the ad- principle that plays a key role in various facets of the web, vent of XML has stressed the importance of style as a key such as accessibility, device independence, ubiquity and mo- area complementing document structure and content. A bility. number of tools are now available for producing HTML and To address the wide variety of documents and the different XML documents, but very few are addressing style issues. ways they are used on the web, two languages were devel- In this paper we analyze the requirements for style manip- oped for specifying style in XML documents, namely CSS ulation tools, based on the main features of the CSS lan- [3] and XSL [2].