Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> writes: >[...] Murray Altheim had a good question, but I forget what it was. Stylesheets and linking of meta information. Assuming even a minimal SGML application (without tables, forms, hyperlinks, and other features folks in the HTML world have come to expect*), we still need to provide a method of attaching presentation information to our structured content. >One parenthetical note - about half a dozen people separately said they >wished we'd put FPI's in. My standard answer was "James says it's too >hard," but there is clearly a desire for this on the SGML side of the >fence. Not only would it be hard, it would add substantially >to the spec. I'd favor heel-dragging on this, but now would be a >good time for pro-FPI manifestoes in the WG. I was one, only because I see academic, corporate and government sites wishing to build lightweight applications around a common DTD. Without FPIs there is no simple way (other than the hack of embedding URLs into system ids) of providing the benefits of public text. Perhaps a subset of TR9401 rather than the whole shebang would do fine. Murray * Netscape's new XML browser, called the 'Netscape Geomancer', already supports XML frames, VRML, BGSOUND, and BLINK. It also supports a new flavor of XML they've developed called XML+. Go smoke somethingk and call me in de morning. ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Murray Altheim, Program Manager Spyglass, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts email: <mailto:murray@spyglass.com> http: <http://www.cm.spyglass.com/murray/murray.html> "Give a monkey the tools and he'll eventually build a typewriter."Received on Saturday, 23 November 1996 15:38:24 EST
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