Re: [xwt-users]Introduction to XWT

> If you guys want to switch to strict/validated XHTML for the
> reference, I'm fine with that.  Then we're just an XSL away from any
> other format your heart desires...

It goes along the lines of something like...

With the XMLised documents, the tags are explicit.  <author>, <chapter>,
etc.  This gives greater flexibility to any XSL transformations without
unecessarily complicating the source.

With the html/xhtml version, you are 'guessing' what each tag is and hence
limiting the output to a degree.  You can't have things like an abstract
that are pushed off to one side (check out any doc on gentoo.org).

Anyway, I'll finish it up and transform it and then you'll see the
tangible benefits. :)

HTML is nice as an output format, since it prettifies things and everybody
can view.  As an authoring format and as a storage format it is limited
and it's going to be difficult to create XSL translations that will
actually be meaningful.

- Charlie

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