Subject: Re: Venting
From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 19:00:00 -0500
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At 05:09 PM 2/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
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>> And honestly, why are footnotes and margin notes really the domain of the
>> W3C? What do these ancient forms have to do with the Web?
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>I for one very much need to be able to use one document with different
>style sheets to produce both a printed book and a Web site, preferably
>automatically. XML isn't just for the Web. Neither is XSL. Nor should
>they be.
But come on, really. Is it the job of the W3C to recreate every creative
formatting that was ever used in a book, when both margin notes and
footnotes are really just plain old linked content? Pagination, fine. But
marginalia?
Gack.
Simon St.Laurent
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