- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 21:58:55 +0100 (BST)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
For those not already aware, there is a lot of discussion going on on www-style at the moment, and at least one camp in the discussion is accusing W3C of holding back the development of the web (personally I think this is just the normal fallacy that new is always better). It seems to be across several threads, but basically, at one extreme, there are people advocating use of XHTML with the intended structural semantics (a sub-thread is what does semantics mean, though), and at the other, there are people advocating the use of XML with CSS, with the XML elements being chosen from the author's unpublished, and possibly unique to the document, repertoire. Intermediate levels include the inclusion of an XSLT style sheet to transform to a published standard, and the use of domain specific XML, but with widely published semantics. Another subthread is the possibility of a metalanguage to describe the HTML like document structure semantics of the private language in a similar way to that in which CSS describes its presentational effect. NB it is probably not a good idea to actually discuss this on the WAI list, as many of those, particularly in the ad hoc XML camp, will not see the discussion. (Personally I favour not going beyond domain specific languages, and only using them when there is software available to users to make specific use of the information.)
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