At 14:46 15/12/2000 +0200, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon P. Lucy) wrote:
>
> > > Straight-forward mozilla.org HTML guidelines could be written in
> > > order
> > > to promote standards-compliance and site-wide stylability. However,
> > > this would only work if people used the right kind of tools.
> >
> > I think contributors should only be expected to contribute content, not
> > style.
>
>I agree. I mean guidelines that emphasize the use of structural and
>stylable HTML. Stylable meaning that a site-wide style sheet could be
>applied--not that every contributor writes their own styles.
>
> > use an XML variant, the database could give you versioning as well
> > though), and generated with whatever styling is decided upon.
>
>So you want to separate structure from HTML...
I've been thinking more about it, my original mail was delayed for some
reason. I'm very undecided but I'm thinking along the lines of a very
simple XML structure that enables authors to write plain text and enclose
it with straighforward tags.
Simon
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>Henri Sivonen
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