On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:17:16AM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > Actually, if the initial spec had said "all HTML pages MUST be valid XML > or the browser MUST give an error and make no attempt at rendering it" > and this had been honoured by NCSA and Nutscrape, the web would be in a > much better state. Of course, that's cloud cuckoo land. XML didn't > exist, and Nutscrape would have "extended" the spec.
Since XML wasn't around, I think it is rather the case that if HTML had paid more attention to SGML than "it's tags enclosed in <> signs" we might have had true separation of data and presentation from day 1, and DSSSL might have been something people would put on their resume. But at least these days that's starting to happen with XML. XML is so useful because it provides such good abstractions. You can define it with a DTD, whack all your data in it, walk it with XPath and display it with XSLT and some CSS. -i [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au
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