[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: XSL Debate, Leventhal responds to Stephen Deach
At 12:56 AM 6/23/99 +1000, Rick Jelliffe wrote: >Transforming <person style="bold"> to <xsl:fo variation="bold" >class="person"> >(that is not the correct syntax, dont flame me, it is just an example) >does >not convert the data away from being usable on the semantic web: if >there >is nothing to tie "person" into some controlled vocabulary, you didn't >have >"semantic markup" anyway. _If_ people included the class attribute you've added above, this isn't destructive markup anyway, at least not in the strong sense we've been describing. In the larger case, however, I think this argument obscures the difference between: Semantics have been removed and Semantics we can't understand I can send out documents using CSS and any DTD I want, and you can see them in a browser. Machine-readability may be difficult if the program hasn't been trained for the semantics, but at least the semantic markup is there. Humans can still figure out 'lastname' and 'firstname' (cultural issues can cause mixups, of course) and provide the necessary interpolation. It's not as good as a standardized DTD we all know, love, and come to expect, but at least we can still provide mapping for it by hand. Even in harder cases, say where the semantics are in another language, there's still hope through traditional dictionary approaches and other interesting possibilities, without having to analyze the entire document and make guesses based on formatting and further guesses about what the labels are. Yes, we need controlled vocabularies. Their absence, however, does not suggest that we need to rush our data to a controlled vocabulary that only describes formatting. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer / Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical (July) Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.com 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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