- From: Greg Rice <gregrice@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 01:28:32 -0800
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Below is a forwarded message from a new list which is hosted at a U.S. University. They are discussing E-DOCS, electronic documents on the web and their use in education and society. I think people on the list might want to pass on guidelines, suggestions and ideas for inclusivity and accessibility. Greg -----Original Message----- From: Lloyd Benson <Lloyd.Benson@furman.edu> To: E-DOCS@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU <E-DOCS@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU> Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 10:48 AM Subject: E-DOCS: re: Is XML an emerging standard (P. Flynn) :Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 10:20:41 +0000 (GMT) :From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@imbolc.ucc.ie> :Subject: Re: E-DOCS: Is XML an emerging standard or mere wannabe? : : 1. XML is exactly, what i was waiting for, because it eliminates : the limitations of HTML. : :Absolutely. But SGML can already do this, and tools are already :available. Look at DocZilla (www.doczilla.com) for a browser that :reads HTML, XML, and SGML. : : 2. It's absolutely important to develop common XML-Structures and : DTDs for major types of documents relevant to the humanities. TEI : shows the major direction but isn't sufficient for special : requirements (like some types of historical source) : :This is already underway, I believe. : : 3. The main problem: how to make it work? Editors may come within : half a year or a year. For fully functional browsers we will have : to wait a little bit longer. One possible way to make the material : accessible for the user now is to markup it according to XML and : special DTDs, and then (1) to transform it into current HTML and : :Much easier is to author it in existing SGML, using existing tools, :which are stable and known to work, and transform it into HTML or Word :or LaTeX or PDF or whatever is needed now; and transform it into XML :later when XML tools become more usable. You can then decide if you :want to keep the master copies in SGML or move all of it into XML. : : (2) to extract the descriptive informations of the XML-Structure : into a database or data-array which can be accessed by a : JAVA-applet which works as a user-interface (in common browsers) : administering the descriptive data and providing various ways of : access (e.g. by cascading menus, or as a platform for local search : engines). : :That would be an excellent tool. : :///Peter :
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