RE: The Future of Browser-Bound XML?

~Then there's XSLFO... but from what I've read that's more aimed at the printed
~word, and all the examples I've seen are diplayed as PDF files.

Correct, however there are many other forms of converting XML to printed outputs. We tend to use Perl and LaTeX. But you could use XSL-FO and passiveTex to make postscript files or pdf.

There are other ways like DSSSL which was very popular with formatting SGML, but I think a lot of people have strayed away from DSSSL these days.

~So what are we supposed to use to display XML files to the web without first
~changing them into the HTML/CSS paradigm? Or is that how we're "supposed" to do it?

Yes that is how you are supposed to do it.

We are working on several different stylesheets that will allow different people in the company to see the same content in a way that is geared towards their final output. For example we have an HTML preview of XML docs that is in the format of training materials for our trainers. They can edit the XML in XMetaL in a pleasing interface and then click a button to see what the end result will look like. These materials will end up being printed, but for a quick glance HTML works very good and is faster than generating a pdf.
These files that the trainers are editing are actually fragments of the overall help. So by them being industry experts and modifying the content to make their training materials better they are actually making the rest of the help and other materials that are generated from the same sources better too. Of course there is a lot that goes into the editing and approval but you get the idea.

Cheers,
Wendell

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