xml-dev - Re: Component Markup Language

["Frank Boumphrey" <bckman@ix.netcom.com>]

>> One cannot rely on "HTML 5" as a solution to this problem
>> by reading
>> current Working Draft:
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-html-in-xml-19981205/

The current working draft, as it makes clear is just part of a series of
documents. This WD will lead to a simple document providing XML namespaces,
and XML DTD's for XHTML.

I believe the current working group will be also looking at the whole of
forms and interfaces, so if people have any requirements for an HTML
interface now is the time to make them known.

I know that many members of the current W3C HTML WG monitor this list, and
as XHTML is XML I would hope that such discusion would be proper on this
list. Discussion of of HTML can also be carried out on the W3C publiic
mailing lists.

Frank


----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Birbeck <Mark.Birbeck@iedigital.net>
To: <master@rosethorns.com>; Mark Birbeck <Mark.Birbeck@iedigital.net>;
<xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 1999 4:01 PM
Subject: RE: Component Markup Language


. The next
>> generation of HTML will not provide any such facilities. Information
>> about the nature of the next generation HTML can be obtained
>> by reading
>> current Working Draft:
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-html-in-xml-19981205/
>
>Can people please be specific, so I can see if I have lost the plot
>here:
>
>If I was to propose a component-XML DTD that began with a tag called
>HTML, then others called HEAD and BODY, and it had definitions for text
>fields, buttons, drop-boxes, images, tables and more, as well as being
>able to call up external programs and all the rest of it; what
>ADDITIONAL features is everyone saying they would want to be present in
>*their* component-XML that are not in 'mine' (and I really think the
>lack of graphics on a button is insufficient justification for spending
>the next year writing an entire XHTML!)
>
>I'm not saying that the user-interface has to then be a web browser -
>make it Java if you want. All I'm saying is there is a very good syntax
>in place for defining user interfaces - why not use it?
>
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