Re: Transformation + FOs makes abuse easy

Subject: Re: Transformation + FOs makes abuse easy
From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:08:33 -0400
Simon St.Laurent  wrote:

>As a result, the 'meaningful Web' project that was the driving force (at
>least in public) for the creation of XML is at risk.  Server-side
>transformation from semantically rich private vocabularies to
>presentation-oriented public vocabularies may leave the Web exactly where
>it was before - interesting to read, but not very useful.
>
    So you agree that, logically, the most open and semantically rich way to
transmit information is via XML with conversion on the client into a
presentation format. Whether the XSL sheet converts into XHTML+CSS or XFO on
the client is irrelevent to the fact that the data started out as
semantically rich, and perhaps arbitrary XML/RDF.

    In a perfect world, all browsers would support client side
transformation.

Jonathan Borden
http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net




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