RE: [166] Organize documents so they may be read without style sheets

>The content should be available without the use of CSS. (By the way, 
>this is a test of whether the separation of content from its 
>presentation is reflected in the technical modelling...)

Some content can never be separated from CSS because it never 
involves CSS. Multimedia is an example.

Some standards-compliant methods of displaying images purely using 
CSS would be disallowed by a surface reading of the paragraph quoted 
above.

>A XAG-compliant XML format has a default stylesheet (as does XHTML). 
>Perhaps what we mean is that the default styling, for any medium, 
>should be sufficient to "read" the content - rather than saying this 
>only applies to HTML, which as Joe pointed out is very different to 
>XML in regards to stylesheets.

Anyone care to explain that, using as few acronyms as possible?

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Received on Friday, 20 June 2003 15:05:22 UTC