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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ashvil" <ashvil@i...> To: <xml-dev@x...> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 2:15 PM Subject: Bad use of XML ? > There are two ways of looking at this > 1. This is Bad and will encourage every one to come up with their own flavor > of XML. That is the whole POINT of XML! If HTML had been truly adequate for simple applications like this, some small subset of us would still be using SGML and everyone else would be using HTML. > > Counter point to 2. > If the focus is to hide the developers from XHTML, then a visual XHTML tool > could be used to generate XHTML directly. etc... Presumably this isn't *just* visual data; there's probably some logic somewhere that cares whether something is a "STOPELEMENT" or a "PLAYELEMENT", even if (for the sake of argument) they had the same appearance. The point is not to hide developers from XHTML, but to relate structure, content, and appearance in an appropriate way. A skin is largely visual, but its markup should reflect both the appearance and the semantics of a skin. XHTML reflects the semantics of a web page, and is at best massive overkill for this little application. *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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