Re: Evolving strategies, was RE: An open challenge: HTML 4.0 tables

[Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pawson, David wrote:
> My 'model' has a stack of dtd's on the left for the markup of different
> doc classes, and for each dtd a set of stylesheets on the right,
> one per media. Being dos based I have a set of batch files
> which go something like <dtd>2<o/pmedia>, eg Mag2html
> Hence the 'single command line' 'works', but not as your
> best strategies vision.

I think the important thing to point out are the words "one per media".
Not one per output format, as Stephen believed, but one per media --
braille, print, online. My SGML/XML 97 paper will talk about strategies
for reusing code between media.

 Paul Prescod

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