Subject: Re: do you use pi's? From: Andy Dent <dent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 16:44:46 +0800 |
At 2:07 +0800 4/4/99, Mark D. Anderson wrote: >This *really* felt like something that might be done with a PI, but >i've never used one before. But is there any point? We went through this debate about whether PI's should be used for some of the layout information put out by our report writer. My conclusion was that it would be better to put in the effort to have information encoded in XML in a form that made sense to a human reader, and that people would be tempted to write themselves, so that composition and editing with standard XML editors was possible. Andy Dent BSc MACS AACM, Software Designer, A.D. Software, Western Australia OOFILE - Database, Reports, Graphs, GUI for c++ on Mac, Unix & Windows PP2MFC - PowerPlant->MFC portability http://www.oofile.com.au/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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