- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:39:52 +0200
On Jan 4, 2005, at 13:38, Jim Ley wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 10:23:54 +0200, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> > wrote: >> Shipping FooML over the network is not more Semantic Web >> friendly, since software written by others are not aware of the >> semantics of FooML. > > Yet there are a huge number of known XML formats that could be used > instead of FooML that do have well defined and well known semantics, > these can be very sensibly used. The blog post that was referenced referred to "proprietary formats". Anyway, even for non-proprietary XML formats, the problems with client-side XSLT outweigh the supposed benefit, IMO. A better approach is running the XSLT transformation (or even a transformation implemented by other means) on the server and referencing the original representation from the (X)HTML representation using <link rel='alternate' ...>. That would not burden browsers but would still allow specialized UAs to discover the original XML representation (or the original non-XML representation, even). -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://iki.fi/hsivonen/
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