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Using stylesheets will generate HTML files. Different stylesheets will generate different HTML files. It is easy to switch stylesheets for an XML file Julius -----Original Message----- From: Hewko, Doug [mailto:Doug.Hewko@c...] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 7:00 AM To: 'peter@s...'; 'xml-dev@l...' Subject: RE: When to use XML or HTML extensions? Thanks for the reply. If you use a XML file, then aren't you limiting yourself to just one style sheet? Or maybe my understanding of XML is still too narrow. As an example, take a phone list, which is a *.xml file because that's the easiest to start using. If you want the same data to be displayed in multiple ways (ie. sorted alphabetically or by location), then shouldn't you use *.html files? -----Original Message----- From: Peter Flynn [mailto:peter@s...] Sent: July 12, 2001 2:10 AM To: xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: When to use XML or HTML extensions? On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Hewko, Doug wrote: > I noticed that some people use files with an XML extension and some with > HTML. For example here are two equivalent pages of Jeni's XSLT Tutorial > pages: > http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/index.xml > http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/index.html That's often because some people don't have browsers that can read XML yet, so they can use the HTML. > Other tutorials ("XML Bible", "Teach Yourself XML in 24 Hours", W3Schoosl, > etc) tend to incorporate XML within a HTML document. Then they are being very misleading. That is a technique called Islands and (AFAIK) only works in MSIE5.* so it's completely non-portable. > Is there some > rule that tells you when to use one method vs another? Your market. If they all use an identically-capable browser, then use the best features available to them; otherwise provide XML files for those who can read them and HTML for those who cannot. ///Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------ The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l... ------------------------------------------------------------------ The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l...
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