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Re: Separation of semantics and styling

From: Stanimir Stamenkov <stanio@myrealbox.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 17:50:18 +0200
Message-ID: <43EE07BA.3000909@myrealbox.com>
To: www-amaya@w3.org 

/Christopher Evans/:

> "HTML should represent the semantics of a document."
> 
> Surely not! Semantics is to do with meaning. What HTML represents is 
> structure.

What I understand is SGML and XML are generics to represent a 
structure. Specific applications like HTML add semantics to the 
elements and the structure.

-- 
Stanimir
Received on Saturday, 11 February 2006 15:48:30 UTC

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