Re: [xml-dev] RE: Meanwhile, in XML-world

["Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>]

On 02/25/2014 09:21 AM, William Velasquez wrote:
> Sorry for my ignorance, but this article looks like "congratulations"
> to the XML Community for using the "Sound Foundation" approach to
> building apps recently discussed here.
>
> Isn't it?
Hmmm... I don't think so, but I can sort of see where that might come
from.

I see more of an ebb and flow, with things like the MSNBC one true
structure as a failed "sound foundation", then presentational chaos as a
response to that, and DITA as having a different set of options for
flexibility.

It's not as much anarchy as I usually encourage, but I also don't think
it's cheering for dry formal waterfall.

Thanks,
Simon

> -----Mensaje original----- De: Simon St.Laurent
> [mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com] Enviado el: martes, 25 de febrero de
> 2014 8:44 a. m. Para: xml-dev@lists.xml.org Asunto: Meanwhile, in
> XML-world
>
> Thought you all might enjoy this from A List Apart.  XML, still
> relevant to HTML.
>
> <http://alistapart.com/article/battle-for-the-body-field>
>
> "While fields and templates have come to dominate web publishing
> tools, the XML world has spent nearly 15 years developing a parallel
> approach. Rather than chunking content into fields and re-assembling
> it later, the XML community embraces fluid, markup-based documents.
> To capture meaningful structure and avoid HTML's browser-specific
> presentation pitfalls, they define purpose-specific collections of
> markup tags for different projects and applications. It's a versatile
> approach that has crossed paths with the web publishing world: the
> XHTML standard is just HTML, defined as an XML schema.
>
> The Darwin Information Typing Architecture standard-better known as
> DITA-is a mature example of this approach. Developed by IBM and
> announced in 2001, DITA was shaped by the technical documentation
> community."
>
> Of course, it's not just a "let's use DITA" article:
>
> "The good news is we don't have to convert all our projects to XML to
> learn from those communities' accumulated wisdom. While the
> toolchains that have been built around those approaches are a tough
> fit for today's mature web development tools and workflows, we can
> use their principles in our projects."
>
>
> Thanks, Simon St.Laurent http://simonstl.com
>
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