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Ketil Z Malde wrote: > Turning to Marcus, who said in a previous posting that: > > >>> People who are drafting XML documents such as legislation are not > >>> working with the structure, > > And I replied: > > >> I maintain it is much better than pretending the structure doesn't > >> exist by covering it under formatting issues. > > And now you say: > > > The user doesn't pretend that it doesn't exist - they still select elements and > > assign attribute values. > > So they *do* work with the structure, after all. Explicitly. The two sentences have been taken completely out of context - the first was not considering to the use of an editor, the second was specifically dealing with document creation using a structured editor. To clarify: a) someone drafting legislation without the aid of an XML editor is creating a structured document (because all documents are structured) but is principally interested in the content, b) someone drafting legislation with the aid of an XML editor is creating a structured document, and is concerned with applying the correct structure as well as getting the content right. Option b) is more work, so the structural part is sometimes undertaken as a separate process by one who is more experienced with structure and less knowledgeable about drafting legislation. -- Regards, Marcus Carr email: mrc@a... ___________________________________________________________________ Allette Systems (Australia) www: http://www.allette.com.au ___________________________________________________________________ "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Einstein 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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