Re: <br/> in FO?

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Subject: Re: <br/> in FO?
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:29:02 -0500

At 07:12 AM 2/27/2002, Eliot wrote:

As Ken Holman has convinced me, the list and table structures in FO are
there to be used to get formatting effects, not to reflect the semantics
of the data you're formatting, so use away if it's the easiest way to
get what you need.

I couldn't agree more. If we start interpolating meanings from other contexts into what amount to technical terms in FO ... such as "list" or "table" ... well, that way lies madness. The whole advantage of the layered approach (tagging in source reflects its semantics, tagging in FO reflects FO's semantics) is that the semantic layers don't need to infect each other. It goes both ways.

I'm not even sure within the context of an application-bound XML tag set like FO, the notion of "tag abuse" is even applicable. If its behavior conforms to the spec (which is up to the formatter) and it works, who's to say it's "wrong"?

Regards,
Wendell


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What is wrong here?, (continued)
- Slava Sedov - Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:06:56 -0500 (EST)
  - Jeni Tennison - Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:00:51 -0500 (EST)
- W. Eliot Kimber - Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:13:01 -0500 (EST)
  - Gustaf Liljegren - Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:40:43 -0500 (EST)
  - Wendell Piez - Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:35:28 -0500 (EST) <=
- Nitin . Jain - Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:13:02 -0500 (EST)
- Joerg Pietschmann - Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:04:25 -0500 (EST)

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