- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 21:07:48 +0100
- To: "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org>
- Cc: Dean Jackson <dean@w3.org>, www-svg@w3.org
On Tuesday, November 2, 2004, 8:27:02 PM, Robert wrote: ROC> Chris Lilley wrote: >>Or alternatively, that the definition of a para is presentational. Which >>it is, as in languages like HTML which sit somewhere in the middle of the >>continuum from abstraction to concreteness. >> ROC> Then what exactly is the defined presentational behaviour of a ROC> paragraph, and how does it differ from a DIV? paragraphs, like divs, are a block of text that starts on a new line and whose following block of text also starts on a new line. This is why I said they are mid way along the continuum. If one imagines a syntax which is more abstract, such as for example a pharmaceutical markup with dose, contra-indication, side-effect and suchlike elements, then some of those might be mapped to paragraps in one presentation and to inline elements in others. ROC> Anyway, even if we agree that SVG text is purely presentational, CSS is ROC> clearly presentational too so in general there's still overlap with CSS ROC> to deal with. And XSL-FO is clearly presentational too. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group
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