SGML: DSSSL Online Versus CSS

SGML: DSSSL Online Versus CSS

The following list of (missing) features pertains to a comparison of DSSSL (Online) and CSS1 (Cascading Style Sheets): DSSSL Online Presentation, by Jon Bosak, from Sun Microsystems. The larger document, a set of slides, is an overview of dsssl-o as well as a comparison between Cascading Style Sheets and DSSSL Online ["CSS is a nice fit for HTML but is utterly inadequate to the needs of commercial content providers using generic SGML. . . inherently incapable of handling generic SGML applications"]; see the text of a sample slide from the presentation. For other features of DSSSL lacking in CSS1, see below: