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> >The truth is that delivering XML to a client (other than careful XHTML) is > >still a special case, and probably will be for at least another year. > > Sad but true. I've been amazed by how incredibly slow (and/or broken) > client-side development for XML has been. It's PNG all over again. When was that spec ratified, 1996? And yet, IE5 still doesn't claim to handle it. (See my earlier message concerning HTTP_ACCEPT.) At least Netscape's on the wagon with that.... > For right now, I'm still telling people to use HTML for Web delivery. The > CLASS attribute and well-formed can be awfully handy for the conversion > down the line (of both docs and style sheets), but XML on the client is a > tantalizing fantasy for now. Hey, that's why I'm starting my conversion work now. There's this nifty little program called htp (html pre-processor, at http://www.crl.com/~jnelson/htp/) floating about that, if used imaginatively, can let you set up two sets of definitions which can be used on the same batch of data files to generate HTML on the one hand and XHTML (perhaps, eventually, XML) on the other. That's what I've been doing, and so far it works very well. I still have a way to go before I get to my destination, but by starting now, I don't have to rush. As things currently stand, all my architecture is in place - I've got one set of common definitions, one set of HTML-only definitions, and one set of XML-only definitions. HTML-only plus common yields HTML files; XML-only plus common yields XHTML. So far, I've used this primarily for stripping out legacy support on the XML side and for converting the !DOCTYPE statements, but with some tinkering, it can go a lot further. Rev. Robert L. Hood | http://rev-bob.gotc.com/ Get Off The Cross! | http://www.gotc.com/ Download NeoPlanet at http://www.neoplanet.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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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