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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> Provide well-formed content in XML (not Flash or Java, please) and offer
> one or more stylesheets that suggest a possible presentation; and you're
> good to go.
In practice, it's not that much better than with HTML; different
browsers support different bits of CSS, and even XSLT had a couple of
implementation differences you can fall over last time I had much to do
with it (a couple of years ago now, admittedly). I seem to remember the
key ref stuff wasn't universally supported at the time, or some such.
My point being that really popular systems tend to involve a small
number of viewer/'consumer' applications and many thousands or millions
of producers, so the producers are ending up thinking about how the
consumers will handle their output, rather than just publishing it and
letting the world do with it as they will. This was how HTML went under
commercial pressures; while HTML+CSS has helped a lot, I don't see that
XML has done all that much to change this. Unlike HTML+CSS, XML is
useful in situations where you have few producers and many consumers, so
it may *appear* to have helped just by being in situations where the
problem doesn't exist ;-)
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