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Tim Bray wrote: > > At 01:03 PM 9/11/98 +0800, Andy Dent wrote: > >At 23:01 +0800 10/9/98, Paul Prescod wrote: > >>The browser takes XML, pumps it through an XSL engine, receives an XML > >>result (according to a known DTD with formatting semantics) and renders > >>*that*. You can do the same with your report writer. > > > >THANK YOU > > Ouch. Should have been watching more carefully. This is not quite right; > most important, DTDs have no formatting semantics. CSS and XSL stylesheets > do. -Tim I'm not sure what you mean. Would you prefer "(according to a known NAMESPACE with formatting semantics)"? Your short message would seem to imply that one can only format an XML document if it has a CSS or XSL stylesheet, which is, of course, not true. DTDs like HTML, SPDL and the new "fo" namespace DO have formatting semantics. Paul Prescod - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco The past is inaccurate. Whoever lives long enough knows how much what he had seen with his own eyes becomes overgrown with rumor, legend a magnifying or belittling hearsay. "It was not like that at all!" -- he would like to exclaim, but will not, for they would have seen only his moving lips without hearing his voice. - Czeslaw Milosz (translated) 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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