- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:04:13 -0400
- To: www-tag@w3.org
Norm Walsh writes: > Taken to the extreme, you could put *all* markup out of line. This > very message could be fully tagged in a dozen different ways by > providing different "stylesheets" "semantic sheets" and "link sheets". > > Despite the fact that Simon St Laurent has demonstrated that such a > scheme has interesting properties, I think it would be an enormous > step backwards. I think Norm's referring to: http://simonstl.com/articles/ool/ The interesting properties are indeed real, but the inconvenience level is extreme unless you have an excellent set of tools. (The code I developed definitely does not qualify as excellent.) One of the nicer features of markup is the relatively simple set of tools needed to work with it, so I suspect that even though out-of-line markup is great for hypertext, it would be a big step backwards for the Web per se. At the same time, I think namespace-disambiguated linking has its own huge set of problems, so we might do well to acknowledge that there likely isn't a single perfect answer to this set of questions. ------------- Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA http://simonstl.com may be my URI http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether
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