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From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@s...> >XSL in its present form is unnecessary, doing nothing new (the Leventhal >argument), and brings with it new dangers (an easy move away from the >semantic Web). To me, that's a pretty good case for passing on XSL. We do not have a semantic Web anyway: at least not until there are widely accepted and used controlled vocabularies installed. And there is a level of markup even within semantically-marked-up data that can usefully be asemantic (if that is a word) (i.e., generic markup against uncontrolled vocabularies: labels) or even non-semantic (i.e. processing). 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. Rick Jelliffe 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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