Re: [tlug] OT: XML?

["simon" <simon@example.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean-Christian Imbeault" <jean_christian@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [tlug] OT: XML?


>
> >The second half of "why" is that you can use these libraries to create
> >abbreviations that expose the common structure of your site, while
> >hiding the boilerplate.  Ie, you generate the presentation from the
> >source.  You can automatically verify syntax and often large parts of
> >semantics automatically.  And you can use the deep structure to
> >generate varying views of your content from the same sources.
>
> Now *that* sounds like a Good Thing(tm). But then again as someone else
> pointed out XHTML and CSS would pretty much do this also.

XHTML *is* XML - it is a revision of HTML that makes it fit the rules for XML so you should be able to use the same tools for
parsing XHTML as for parsing any XML document.  Modern browsers can all display XHTML.  You just need to write CSS to make it look
pretty.

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simon colston