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--- Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have sometimes expressed a concern about the > "gravitational pull" exerted > by particular shared processing applications on > tagging practice within a > community. > Such as an XSL stylesheet suite -- and > the better it is > designed, the worse becomes the problem. > Not > knowing any better, projects tend to code to the > stylesheet (the way newbie > web designers code to a particular browser), not to > the information they > are tagging, with the result that information reuse > and repurposing -- that > is, any application but that particular stylesheet's > target -- are > compromised, and much of the promise of XML tagging > in the first place is > betrayed. (The XML becomes a handmaiden of the > output format, rather than > the output format serving the data.) IMHO, if someone is coding to the stylesheet rather than to the semantics, that is a sign that either the available semantics aren't rich enough (as is arguably the case with HTML) or that the someone in question doesn't really understand what they are supposed to be doing. That said, that is probably a more of a "religious" or "philosophical" question than is really fit for this list. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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