- From: Lachlan Hunt <lhunt07@postoffice.csu.edu.au>
- Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 02:19:40 +1100
- To: AaronEldreth@cs.com
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
AaronEldreth@cs.com wrote: > The DTD would simply tell the browser how to interpret the If...then, > else, case and other handlers. XML or at least XHTML would be > streatched from a SGML based language, to a universal programming > language capable of doing anything. XHTML is not and should not be a programming language. XHTML is called "Extensible HyperText Markup Language", NOT "Extensible HyperText Multipurpose Language", and, therfore, it is designed for marking up structure in documents only, and that's how it should stay. Scripting XML documents is the domain of the Document Object Model [DOM] and the scripting language standards, like ECMAScript [ECMA-262]. [DOM] http://www.w3.org/DOM/ [ECMA-262] http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm CYA ...Lachy
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