[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: XSL Debate, Leventhal responds to Stephen Deach
I'm losing track of who is on which side in this debate, but... "Simon St.Laurent" wrote: > > At 07:38 AM 6/22/99 -0400, Paul Prescod wrote: > >But if you are going to pursue this "disabling the semantic web" stuff > >you'll have to show that XSL is somehow better at doing so than the DOM, > >which you seem to think is just fine. > > Sure thing. XSL provides a semantic-free vocabulary for representing > content. The DOM just juggles tree structures. CSS just annotates those > structures for presentation. XSL provides a quick path from semantic > documents to semantic-free presentation that is _possible_ in DOM+CSS, but > is neither easy nor recommended. > ... how about advertising-funded info-sources as an example of data that should be presented in as non-machine-semantic (if you'll forgive the neoligism) a form as possible? Until or unless we have an ethical model that allows meta-search engines and meta-price feeds to promise to pass on the adverts as well as the data, the survival of these handy services may depend partly on their output have a low level of machine semantics. Yuck. Francis. -- Francis Norton. Air Rage - a "flight *and* fight" reaction? 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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