[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Separating content from presentation
Umm.. gotta be picky. XML like SGML isn't *designed* to do that. One does that because as you say, it's good practice. I am picky about it because otherwise, XHTML wouldn't exactly make sense. Application languages are what XML and SGML are designed for designing. People don't get that sometimes and we get all the religious nonsense. There are problems of confusing abstraction for the sake of describing ever larger variations of applications and the simple technique of lossy downtranslation for the sake of presentation. If one isn't careful, the More Meta Than Thou creep takes over and the abstractions result in ThingThatDoesNothing. Too narrow and it is the ThingThatDoesEverythingBadly. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Al B. Snell [mailto:alaric@a...] Yep, but people have been doing this for ages, and XML doesn't help or hinder this at all. XML as a way of seperating content and presentation started because it was designed to split Web pages into content and presentation, it's nothing to do with having content generating code seperating from presentation code - that's just good programming practice, XML or no XML.
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