Re: FYI: User-defined logical emphasis styles
Joe English (jenglish@crl.com)
Wed, 02 Nov 1994 09:44:53 -0800
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Subject: Re: FYI: User-defined logical emphasis styles
In-Reply-To: <MICHAELJ.941101084203@relay.relay.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 1994 09:44:53 -0800
From: Joe English <jenglish@crl.com>
michaelj@relay.relay.com (Michael Johnson) wrote:
> Actually, this capability is already in HTML+ in the form of the <RENDER>
> tag. <RENDER> allows you to specify an arbitrary tag name (such as SLANG) and
> define the combination of styles to be applied to phrases marked with that
> tag (such as B, I, Q, TT, and so on, and P which indicates the tag should
> cause a paragraph break).
<RENDER> and user-defined elements are still controversial,
since users have to modify the DTD for it to work. The
mechanism for doing so is not at all intuitive without a
thorough understanding of SGML, and it's a lot more work for
browsers. (Well, not really; browsers could continue to ignore
the DTD internal subset and only pay attention to <RENDER> tags,
but that will only encourage the proliferation of illegal HTML
on the Web.)
InfoMaster/IBMIDDoc lets users define new semantic classes
without modifying the base tag set. This seemed like
a cleaner approach to me.
--Joe English
jenglish@crl.com