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On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 08:06:42PM -0400, Paul Prescod wrote: > Marc.McDonald@D... wrote: > > > > FO's force you to reconstruct your elements as formatting objects which lose > > all contextual information from the original (both nesting and element > > identification). In this way it is like translating to HTML (which was the > > example). > > That is absolutely not true. If the transformation is done on the client > side then *no information is lost* in the transformation because the > original document is still available and can be referenced through the > result document. The result document is just a view -- it can't destroy > the original information any more than a database view could. But haven't you been arguing for providing FO's _at_the_server_? If you are suggesting transforming at the client, then you are _favouring_ the semantic web! I am really confused now. Cheers, Marcelo -- http://www.simdb.com/~marcelo/ 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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