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Re: XLink - where are we? [tiny amount of frustration]

• From: "W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@d...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 22:16:31 -0600

At 02:14 AM 11/11/98, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:

>(c) it appears to require all applications to have a stylesheet - i.e.
>there is no default display and it's therefore primarily for rendering XML
>as text with hyperlinks.

Not trying to be difficult, but how could any useful form of default
presentation other than running everything together or making every element
a separate block be provided by a DTD-inspecific tool?  I don't know of any
generalized SGML tool that provides any useful sort of default styling. The
best is Arbortext's Document Architect, which provides a sort of wizard by
which it asks a bunch of questions and makes some informed guesses and then
generates a style sheet that can be a reasonable starting place (it can
also be more trouble than it's worth depending on what sort of DTD you
happen to have).

Cheers,

E.
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