- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:57:56 +1000
- To: "David Woolley" <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>, www-style@w3.org
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:51:55 +1000, David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk> wrote: > Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:06:43 +1000, David Woolley >> <forums@david-woolley.me.uk> wrote: >>> The structural elements are identified in the style sheet. >> Huh? > > In order to render the document it should not be necessary to know the > structural significance of the elements; at least that's the ideal. Seems like a weird ideal to me. Where can I see this in practice? > [...] > >> Domain specific formats would just be converted to HTML. It's already >> being done. > > I think you have basically decided that HTML is the presentational > language for XML documents. In reality that is a hack to make use of > HTML browsers. I don't believe that was ever the intention behind XML. (X)HTML is the document exchange language for the web. XML is just a simplification of SGML. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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