Subject: Re: Formatting Objects considered harmful From: Guy_Murphy@xxxxxxxxxx Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:54:27 +0100 |
Hi. And the reason why this "well known semantic XML application" shouldn't be aural specific presentation objects is? The problem with your solution is what needs to be "told" to the site impared is often not the same as what is presented on screen. Therefore unless you split visual presentation from aural presentation you cannot actualy *cater* for the visualy impared, you can only give them the unstrctured, often gibberish that is the aural interpretation of the Web site.... ie. a second best often useless fallback.... anybody want to argue that this is what the visualy impared deserve, or that infering aural presentation from the bulk of Web sites meets their needs? As for alternative solutions of a common doctype.... we're just looking at HTML on steroids. HTML was always a fractured language, with varying degrees of support and ill fitting semantics that by v4 had created implimentation schisms all over the Net. Because it's semantics didn't fit the job browser manufacterer started making up their own tags ad hoc. It happened once, it will happen again. Please people remember where we came from, and why we decided XML would be desirable in the first place. What more pointless exercise could we engage in that put all the time and effort into XML just to wind up back with HTML? Cheers Guy. xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 04/27/99 09:40:18 PM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: (bcc: Guy Murphy/UK/MAID) Subject: Re: Formatting Objects considered harmful On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, James Clark wrote: True. The suggested solution to this problem is that instead of transforming AXML (arbitrary XML) to FOs, you transform AXML to a recognised and well known semantic XML application (most probably XHTML), and style that using CSS. The well known semantic XML application could be some document type that does not exist yet. Its authors would have to invest time into making various stylesheets for that document type, just as browser authors at the moment have to carefully design stylesheets for XHTML in their media. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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