- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 09:02:16 -0500
- To: marym@Finesse.COM
- CC: www-style@w3.org
>To accomplish this goal of creating some stylesheet information that >works with some XML means very strict agreement on the use of keywords, >and parsing of elements if you are ever to get different "intellegent" >editors to cooperate. My point was that someone said HTML succeeded because it was an interoperable, device, and application independent format. That's absolute rubbish. The fact that most editors actually edit a different syntax *and* structure renders it quite impossible to actually send reasonably complex HTML pages through a workflow incorporating many different applications, and expect anything other than garbage to appear out the back (the fact that it often looks OK is even worse).. The syntax/parsing of XML is (and will become increasingly so) strictly defined. I fully expect validation of *parsers* to be a requirement in XML software production. I also fully expect some standardisation on the abtract representation of XML (the XML grove plan), which will dictate the overall application model for most software. Once we have the above, it is possible, and not even particularly hard, to build editors that can not only read in stylesheets and XML files, but also maintain the structural and semantic integrity of both.
Received on Thursday, 6 February 1997 09:03:53 UTC