Re: template matching.. display the data

[Andrew McNaughton <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You haven't understood what I meant.  I'll try again.

The relationship of XML documents to stylesheets is many to many and they 
define quite separate things.  It does not make sense for an XML document to 
define it's presentation, and that includes not defining it by referring to 
which stylesheet is to be used.  Neither does it make sense for for a 
stylesheet to limit reusability by defining which data it shall present, 
though it makes sense to refer to a DTD.

That said, for any particular use (which I called a display instance) the XML 
and stylesheet must both be referenced from somewhere.  I suggested that this 
should be done from a separate document, which references both content and 
presentation markup in other documents.

Andrew



> Hi Andrew.
> 
> I'm worried that I'm misunderstanding what you mean. If I have you wrong I
> apologise.
> 
> You suggest that one document should define one display instance.... do you
> meant he XML or the XSL document?
> 
> And while what you suggest may or may not be a prefered working practice,
> I'm not sure it should be a requirement.
> 
> It must be born in mind that specifying the default stylesheet within an
> XML document as a PI is only one way that XSL may be applied to an XML
> document. It isn't the right way, or the wrong way, just a way.
> 
> It's also worth considering that an awful lot of XML data (at some point it
> might be the majority), will have no stylesheet stipulated at all. Given
> that, I'm free to apply as many different stylsheets to the data as I
> choose, producing multiple views of the data.
> 
> For me, this ability is probably one of the most exciting things XML/XSL
> brings to Web design, multiple views. I'm not talking about one view with a
> 12pt body font and one view with a 10pt body font. I' mean slicing the data
> another way to produce a different interpretation.
> 
> You suggest one display instance, but I have to ask why?
> 
> Cheers
>      Guy Murphy
>      guy_murphy@xxxxxxxxxx
>      http://www.guy-murphy.easynet.co.uk
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> I'm not aware of any spec that supports this at present.  What I meant was
> that it would be a good idea if there was one.
> Personally I think one such document (meaning one URL) should define one
> display instance.  Depending how that evolves, it could use one or more
> stylesheets to present data from one or more XML documents, but should
> produce
> one display result.  XSL doesn't really allow for this, but the display
> spec
> document should ideally not be limited to a particular type of stylesheet.
> Andrew
> [SNIP]
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