Subject: Re: XML is broken (was Re: Why Doesn't IE5 use the DTD toValidate?) From: Chris Lilley <chris@xxxxxx> Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 21:01:58 +0200 |
"John J. Barton" wrote: > There are two ways to win with separated style > sheets: > > 1) A powerful and wonderful Style controls many lowly XML docs. > > *Style* > / | | \ > x1 x2 x3 x4 > > 2) A critical and valuable XML doc flows through many styles to glory. > > *XML* > / | | \ > s1 s2 s3 s4 Which then requires a decision - shoudl all other media (images, sounds, etc) be considered presentational (and thus, included by the stylesheet) or content (and thus, included by the document)? There is a third way manifest / | | \ x1 img1 ss1 ss2 This allows documents and stylesheets and images and othe rmedia all to be reused and to be combined in varous ways. > Clearly embedding control info works for the first case; that is > today's web publication model. The second case just cannot use > embedded control; this is the data conversion world. The third case allows different compound documents and different views to be assembled by never linking direct to the document, but by linking to a view, a manifest whic in turn links to the pieces needed to realise that view. Further structure is also desirable manifest root xml doc subsidiary xml doc1 image 1 subsidiary xml doc2 subsidiary xml doc3 stylesheet alternative one stylesheet 11 stylesheet 12 image 13 stylesheet alternative two stylesheet 21 stylesheet 22 image 23 The mechanism of compound xml documents is clearly transclusion using XLink, and for stylesheets, import. In the mean time, this effect can be simulated (as the indelv browser does) <?xml version='1.0'?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../shakespeare.xsl"?> <id-xml xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core#'> <dc:Title>The Taming of the Shrew</dc:Title> <auto-link xml:link='simple' actuate='auto' href='../plays/taming.xml' show='embed'/> </id-xml> Which adds an embedding control only when it is needed. -- Chris XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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