Hi Jelk

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Chris may be technically incorrect in XML 1.0 terms, but he has hit the
bull's-eye in terms of using stylesheets for anything beyond the simplest
element-level styling.  Say you have in one DTD

	<!ELEMENT masterpiece (#PCDATA)>
	<!ATTLIST masterpiece author CDATA #FIXED "Didier">

and in another DTD,

	<!ELEMENT masterpiece (#PCDATA)>
	<!ATTLIST masterpiece author CDATA #FIXED "Chris">

the only difference being the attribute value ...

Now, what happens when you have stylesheet with

	masterpiece[author="Didier"] { color: red;  /* ... */ }
	masterpiece[author="Chris"]  { color: green;  /* ... */ }

for a document containing

	<masterpiece>Hark, ye dudes!</masterpiece>

How can you apply the rule if you haven't read the DTD?
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<Reply>
You have a very good point here. Waht can I say to that except that you are
right. The more we discuss about it the more we'll discover how good SGML
was :-) Seriously, it seems that more and more we want to do serious things
the closer we come to SGML funny no? (with the exception of the "well formed
"rule). I know that there is more difference than that but, as we progress,
we discover that we have to use things that where at first advertised as
unecessary. Yes, funny :-)
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regards
Didier PH Martin
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