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RE: Style Matters - A class act
- To: "'xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com>
- Subject: RE: Style Matters - A class act
- From: "Pawson, David" <DPawson at rnib dot org dot uk>
- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 08:26:36 -0000
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
Didier PH Martin wrote:
>If the user agent is, for instance, Netscape 4.5, then this
>latter is not an
>XML browser and therefore, the document sent to this user
>agent is an HTML
>document. If the user asks for the source, the HTML document
>is displayed,
>not the original XML document. Thus, the original semantics
>are totally lost
>and what the user get is only a rendition format not a
>"model". If, in this
>document, a link pointing to an XSLT transformation script is included.
>Then, the user can retrieve the original semantics by
>performing a reverse
>transformation.
DaveP.
Flawed argument Didier, if the information provider is going
to give you access to the stylesheet, why don't they simply
link back to the XML source? That way I have the true
original semantics, without interpretation.
Does that make sense?
regards, DaveP
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