[CLUE-Tech] many choices

[Kevin Cullis]

Roger,

To make matter worse, see here:

XML schema catches heat
http://news.excite.com/news/zd/010423/10/xml-schema-catches

Kevin

Match Grun wrote:
> 
> Roger,
> 
> The best solution would probably be XML. Remember
> that XML is not a replacement for HTML. It is a
> self-describing, data transportation language.
> 
> You can create an XSL file (a stylesheet, not to be
> confused with CSS) that can be used with an XSL
> tranformation program to translate XML into other
> file formats, such as HTML, text, etc.
> 
> Match.
> 
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 17:40:23 -0600
> Roger Frank <rfrank at rfrank.net> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the excellent feedback:
> >
> > > Write it using Star Office and export it as HTML.
> >
> > Maybe I've been burned too many times.  Starting with
> > WordStar.  And WordPerfect.  And Applix.  As much as I'd
> > like to see Sun's Star Office succeed, I'm not going to go
> > that way, even if the output it HTML in the end.
> >
> > > How about SGML, using the Linuxdoc-SGML tools or
> > > something like that?
> >
> > I think XML is a subset of SGML.   And I like the way I can
> > decide that a certain header or style has certain attributes.
> > Hey it's just like PageMaker in that respect.
> >
> > > If all you want is to have a presentation that is a web page with
> > > links forward and backwards then straight HTML with CSS is more than
> > > enough.
> >
> > This is a once-only presentation (actually it's an entire course in summary
> > form) so maybe HTML with CSS would be enough.  CSS means
> > cascading style sheets, and somehow I thought that was related to XML
> > but that's maybe only because the file extension for an XML definition
> > seems to be ".css".  But XML is not HTML, so I have more digging to do.
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback, everyone!
> >
> > Roger Frank
> >