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From: Cynthia Lenora Shern <cys@a...> >Is anybody working on creating an abstration for preserving formatting >information inside or along with SGML documents, in cases where format >really is part_of the information. Two examples where such an approach >might make sense could be: > > Examples: > 1) K-12 textbooks Pardon my ignorance: what is K-12? > 2) Printed survey forms for large market research firms. The Taiwanese have worked on this problem. They have the particular problem that the only official version of a document is the paper one physically stamped by the boss, so there is a great need to maintain various kinds of page fidelity. When I last heard, they were trialing a twin DTD system. One was a forms design DTD: it basically had lines, boxes, constant text, and named fields. That sets the boilerplate. Then there was a database DTD in which the actual field data is given. The two get linked by simple name referencing. Rick Jelliffe xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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