- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 12:57:13 -0400
- To: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Cc: kmc@harlequin.com, marc@ckm.ucsf.edu, www-style@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
At 01:37 PM 8/10/96 GMT, Gavin Nicol wrote: >If yu have a sufficiently powerful language for specifying the >symantics to be associated with the tree, you don't get chaos, you get >magic. Sure, but that "sufficiently powerful language" is likely to be chosen by the SGML working group within the W3C. The impression I got from your posts was that we should just move to GI-based element subclassing instead of attribute-based subclassing. Until we require User Agents to parse DTDs (or some other semantic mapping file), that WOULD result in chaos. So far the conversation seems centered on parsing. Parsing GIs is easy. Understanding them is hard (that's where DTDs and DSSSL come in). Paul Prescod
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