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Mark Birbeck wrote: > > If I was to propose a component-XML DTD that began with a tag called > HTML, then others called HEAD and BODY, and it had definitions for text > fields, buttons, drop-boxes, images, tables and more, as well as being > able to call up external programs and all the rest of it; what > ADDITIONAL features is everyone saying they would want to be present in > *their* component-XML that are not in 'mine' (and I really think the > lack of graphics on a button is insufficient justification for spending > the next year writing an entire XHTML!) Been there. Done that. Got the T-shirt (says, "More Meta Than Thou!") See the US Navy MID (Metafile for Interactive Documents) project. There are probably references to it from the OASIS page. I don't know if the original designs are still out there. I believe parts of it mutated into the ISMID which is an ISO project. Check with Dave Cooper and Mike Anderson. When I last looked, there wasn't much left of the original MID, but as a design project, it occupied some serious people for a few years. It was implemented several times by different teams, worked fine, and basically was condemmed as clunky and "not the way I would do it". OTOH, it met the requirements and did the job. IOW, what you want to do works fine but you have to find a market for it. len bullard 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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