On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 12:25:22 -0500
"Mayayana"  wrote:

> "Ahem A Rivet's Shot"  wrote
>
> | >   It's part of web design but it's an entirely different system
> | > and syntax. Though I suppose that's splitting hairs.
> |
> | Not really, there's an important separation CSS applies to any XML
> | or SGML not just HTML.
> |
>
>   You snipped my example. The "cascading" part applies

 Because it wasn't relevant to my point.

> there. First is the CSS file. Then that's overridden by
> CSS in the STYLE tag of the page. Then that can be
> overridden by a STYLE attribute in the HTML tag. If

 *IF* it is being applied to HTML - nothing about CSS requires that
it be applied to HTML.

> you want pretty fonts for your XML that's up to you,

 That is the point I can use XML without using HTML, and indeed
often do - not so much for pretty fonts but for laying out XML data for
viewing. Unlike HTML most XML has no display semantics at all and so CSS is
*required* to display it as anything other that slightly enhanced source.

> but CSS is still deeply entagled with HTML. To not

 I can also use HTML without using CSS. They are independent, but
can and often are used cooperatively even though neither requires the other.

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