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Michael Leventhal wrote: > > I thought the perspectives were coalescing. > Is this two editor approach a transitional stage on the way to a more > glorious evolutionary stage or have we, in fact, distinguished different > types of tasks to which different types of tools have been precisely tailored > to exact nature of the task? > > Michael Leventhal Possible. Even in the past, we have seen considerable differences between SGML-complete editors that were very powerful and came with attendant setup complexity, and editors that just let you point to a DTD and get a configured editing interface. Along the way, some systems whose design parameters did not include the complexities of *faithful to the pica* print requirements have been used successfully. At least two of these were based on laissez-faire (well-formed input/batch validation on request) systems. These fared well in production environments and are still deployed. Here is another perspective. What if DTDs came into being as a result of measurement of frequency and occurrence rather than from design and imposition? Note I am not talking about DTDs generated by inducing markup, but DTDs created as tags are generated by users in the course of natural tagging. Consider the habits borne of the HTML users who began to unwittingly use content tagging styles almost as jokes to delineate thoughts in emails, etc. It is interesting to speculate what the place of genetic DTDs such as could be created from these would have since in some ways the resemble a natural language emerging from an artificial language environment. Len Bullard Intergraph Corporation xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@i...)
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