RE: Error correction (Was also Announcement)

> So maybe I should use media="screen, rtf" or media="screen, CGM"
> this way I
> would be compliant with the specs :-) Is it OK now?
>
> So I would get instead:
>
> <?xml-stylesheet href="urn:tns:myscript" type="text/xsl"
> media="screen, CGM"

I think you are still confusing two concepts here that Chris is trying to
point out. Let me see if I can help you out.

screen = rendering
cgm = abstraction (data format)
dsssl = abstraction (style format, transformation rules format)
xsl = abstraction (style format, transformation rules format)
css = abstraction (style format)

So what does the above mean? If you specify media="CGM" or format="CGM" you
just say that you want to convert the current XML file to the format
specified in media or format attribute. The new format is still an
abstraction, not rendering. You can not see, nor hear nor feel a CGM file.
You need to render it on screen or some other device to actually experience
it. It does not help if you specify format="tex" -- you still need to render
the TeX format before you can experience it, be the rendering on screen, on
paper or voice. This becomes absurd if you specify format="dsssl". You say
you convert your document to stylesheet? (But maybe I do not know enough
about DSSSL or XSL...)

You do not need to specify the intermediate format(s) in the stylesheet
processing instruction, your software does that automatically (if it needs
to). For example, I create an XML file with a CSS stylesheet
(type="text/css"), your program can read a CSS stylesheet, it produces a
LaTeX file from my XML file and CSS style, the LaTeX file is then converted
to DVI and then to PS and GhostScript is launched to render it on screen. As
the author of that original XML file and CSS stylesheet I do not want to
know about the details after that.

If you really wanted to *convert* your XML file to another format that is
fine as well. But I sure do not expect you to say *that* in a stylesheet
processing instruction.

This is how I understood your intensions, sorry if this was totally
irrelevant.

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