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RE: re: Are hyperlinks presentation or content?

• To: "Sean McGrath" <sean.mcgrath@p...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: re: Are hyperlinks presentation or content?
• From: "Mark Seaborne" <MSeaborne@o...>
• Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:49:26 +0100
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• Thread-topic: re: Are hyperlinks presentation or content?

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean McGrath [mailto:sean.mcgrath@p...]
Sent: 01 October 2002 10:31
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject:  re: Are hyperlinks presentation or content?

>I had cause recently to muse that the database concept of a "view" is one 
>of the more
>powerful ideas we somehow lost in the headlong rush to XML 
>content/presentation dualism.

>Come back database view technology: all is forgiven
>http://www.propylon.com/html/knowledge/Come_Back_Database_View_Technology_All_is_Forgiven_20020919.html

>regards,
>Sean

Funny you should say that. I have spent the last three or four months building GUIs over an XML message (using a proprietary, XForms-ish language), and it has been painful. One of the conclusions I have passed on to the powers that be is that it might be a lot easier not to bind directly to the message structure, but to have some intermediary structure.

Its just more transformation supporting transformation, I suppose!

All the best

Mark Seaborne


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