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I suspect this thread has been beaten into the dirt. (Comments addressed to Paul Prescod) You and several other participants in this discussion seem to have some convictions that I'm not likely to change. The emphasis is constantly on the need for separating document content from all other participants in the presentation and/or content of a document, whether they be formatting or scripting. While this may be admirable philosophically, in practice I suspect it's going to make many tasks more complex, even in the long term. Your interpretation of scriptlets is extremely limited. Microsoft has indeed presented quick hacks to demonstrate their tools, not rich documents, but this hardly means that scriptlets are intended purely for scripting. They do provide a better set of tools for componentizing scripts, but that's only half the issue - at least if you believe their press releases. Keeping markup as markup and script as script may seem attractive, but it often does a very poor job when in situations that call for activity on the user's desktop. This can be as simple as expanding and collapsing outlines or as complex as providing rich GUI interfaces in the browser environment. Whether or not the XML community wants to do perform these tasks, XML offers HTML developers a much better toolset for performing them and will undoubtedly be applied to them. Again, we'll see what happens in reality, when all the bozos get their hands on this. Simon St.Laurent Dynamic HTML: A Primer xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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