- From: Ian Graham <igraham@smaug.java.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 18:36:59 -0400
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- cc: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, www-style@w3.org
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Håkon Wium Lie wrote: > > Also sprach Chris Lilley: > > > > And certainly not alone. Documents should always be published either in > > > well known semantic-full vocabularies (XHTML, MathML, even SVG to some > > > extent) > > > > Uhm, in what way is XHTML 'semantic'. I agree that half of the MathML spec > > (the lesser-implemented part) is semantic. > > It's an intersting question. I don't think data formats are "semantic" > or "presentational" -- there exists a continuous "ladder of abstraction". > > I have tried to assess various web document formats in a recent paper: > > http://www.opera.com/people/howcome/2000/PODDP/ > > -h&kon I think the water is also muddied by the many XML 'dialects' that are really just re-expressions of previous processing/data models, but with extra angle brackets. VoxML (with a <goto /> element!) and XFDL are two examples that come to mind. Ian -- Ian Graham ......................... Centre for Academic Technology i a n d o t g r a h a m a t u t o r o n t o d o t c a
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