XML Archive
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I give up. What's the best tool for creating XSL web site templates? I don't want no silly XML editor that happens to support XSL, I want something of Frontpage or Dreamweaver caliber for the web design part and Visual Studio in the XSL coding debugging part. I'm sick of trying to memorize my XML schema just to build a web page around it.
I saw on Scripting News that somebody has created a PNG version of the XML icon. Here's code to create via CSS (261 bytes) instead of a GIF (429 bytes) or PNG (283 bytes):
Now you can do neat tricks, such as a more obvious button: . No more wondering what RSS version you're about to access, and now Google and other search engines will see the words "RSS" on your web site. You can even use your browser's built-in find function to find that pesky link to the RSS.
But I have a question - Dave Winer calls the PNG version "more politically correct" than the GIF version. Is the CSS version even more PC than the PNG version?