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RE: limits of the generic

• To: 'Joe English' <jenglish@f...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: limits of the generic
• From: Micah Dubinko <MDubinko@c...>
• Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:22:59 -0700

Joe English:

>How is blind recognition of links any more useful than
>blind recognition of any other data type (which is to say,
>not very)?

How about a use case:

I want to put, say, DocBook on the web. I can do this today and use a
stylesheet to make it display reasonably, even though none of my browsers
have any built in knowledge of DocBook.

I also would like the links to work.

Thanks,

.micah


-----Original Message-----
From: Joe English [mailto:jenglish@f...]
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 12:54 PM
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject: Re:  limits of the generic



Tim Bray wrote:
>
> Eric van der Vlist wrote:
> >
> > You want links to be manifest in well formed documents because links are
> > obviously important to you but couldn't I want the same for any other
> > type which is important to me?
>
> Yep, but I think links have special importance to the Web and should be
> manifest in documents used on the Web. -Tim


How is blind recognition of links any more useful than
blind recognition of any other data type (which is to say,
not very)?

It might be useful for spiders, but I can't think of any
other application that would benefit.


--Joe English

  jenglish@f...

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