Re: SGML and Forms

[Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Bryan wrote:
> 
> The real question with forms is not how you should present them but 
> how you can pass information captured using them to applications. 
> At present niether DSSSL or XSL address this problem. With XSL 
> you can convert to HTML and then rely on HTML's use of CGI to 
> send messages to the message processor, but this is not a good 
> enough general purpose mechanism.

Could you please comment on what you perceive to be the limitations of
this system? HTML+JavaScript+HTTP+CGI seems to be well on the way to
doing the things you ask of the system. We could reinvent another,
better system, but a) why, and b) why as part of the XML effort?

Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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Annie: "It's so clean down here."
Woody: "That's because they don't throw their garbage away. They make 
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