- From: Jon Bosak <bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 10:17:10 -0800
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@www10.w3.org
- CC: bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM
[Sean Mc Grath:] | I have been trying to build a mental picture of what has been | discussed in recent days and have ended up with a 3 layered model (and | some comments about a possible level 4). [Proposal omitted] My mental picture of what we're doing is more market-oriented than architectural. I'm seeing applications falling into three basic categories: 1. Applications that require extensible content markup and nothing else. Examples: interprocess communication, exchange of data between heterogeneous databases. Specification: XML. 2. Applications that also require linking but use programmed routines (typically Java applets) to generate displays or perform other processing. Examples: Pinnacles circuit modelers, airline scheduling systems, CML. Specifications: XML and XML-LINK. 3. Applications that perform linking and also need a stylesheet language to handle complex display behavior in a standard way. Examples: Advanced Web publishing applications. Specifications: XML, XML-LINK, and XML-STYLE. Please note that this is just a snapshot of my personal mental model this Sunday morning, and as a marketing view, it makes no claim to be architecturally coherent. Jon
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