- From: Martin Bryan <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 13:01:35 +0000
- To: Joe English <jenglish@crl.com>, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 12:02 27/11/96 -0800, Joe English wrote: >I think we should also consider using architectural >forms for specifying presentation for XML documents. >A simple "XML online display architecture" -- most >likely based on HTML -- would be sufficient for many >user applications, and would probably be significantly >easier than either DSSSL or CSS. I'm afraid we tried this back in 1991 when we developed British Standard 7402: Guide to specifying electronic typographic markup (though in those days we didn't know of the term 'architectural forms'"). While it works for simple monolingual documents based on a single writing direction it does not provide a mechanism that will work across the whole range of ISO 10646 characters, or that provides a general purpose solution to specifying typography. If our goal is to supply a universal mechanism then we are going to have to deal with DSSSL at some time and, as the CSS guys found out last week, accept that a greater degree of sophistication is needed to cope with handling text presentation/ ---- Martin Bryan, The SGML Centre, Churchdown, Glos. GL3 2PU, UK Phone/Fax: +44 1452 714029 WWW home page: http://www.u-net.com/~sgml/
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