- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 00:47:23 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
- To: Manos Batsis <m.batsis@bsnet.gr>
- cc: <www-style@w3.org>
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Manos Batsis wrote: > > In HTML, the agent knows what goes where (since it's a presentation > centric language) (Strict) HTML is not a presentation-centric language. > while the structure of an XML document doesn't help a browser in > deciding the presentation structure that will make sense to a user. XML is a meta-language, it itself has no structure. XHTML is XML, for instance. So your argument makes no sense. > So, either the XML document should have a structure and 'data order' > close to the desired XSL output, or an XSL is mandatory while CSS on > it's own is useless. IMHO that argument makes no sense. > So, an agent should know what is what IMHO. And that is what HTTP Content Negotiation is for. -- Ian Hickson )\ _. - ._.) fL Invited Expert, CSS Working Group /. `- ' ( `--' The views expressed in this message are strictly `- , ) - > ) \ personal and not those of Netscape or Mozilla. ________ (.' \) (.' -' ______
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