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* Max Dunn wrote: >The particular example at the above site presents HTML as an example >semantically richer than FO. But that is not to say "just send HTML to >the client", for in a similar fashion XML is in many cases semantically >richer than HTML. The point is why down translate? [...] 2.2 What is HTML? To publish information for global distribution, one needs a universally understood language, a kind of publishing mother tongue that all computers may potentially understand. The publishing language used by the World Wide Web is HTML (from HyperText Markup Language). [...] (Q: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/intro#h-2.2) Delivering your proprietary document language to a global audience, no matter how semantically rich the content might be, is like writing W3C Technical Reports in Klingon - nearly no one would be able to understand or use whatever is written there and those TRs would be useless for the global audience until someone provides translations. I really hope the "XML+CSS" people will understand this one day. -- Björn Höhrmann { mailto:bjoern@h... } http://www.bjoernsworld.de am Badedeich 7 } Telefon: +49(0)4667/981028 { http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de 25899 Dagebüll { PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 } http://www.learn.to/quote/
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