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- (c) is arguable from a design point of view. however, since we're dealing
- with structured text, it should be possible to structure a document (with
- some labor) so that it looks useful in both contexts.
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- as to (b), the only useful definition of a tag that I have is how it shows
- up on the screen.
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- my biggest argument is for (a). or more precisely, for tags that are less
- of a strict descriptive markup and more of a functional or structural
- markup, so that I could mark things up as <question> ... </question> and
- <answer> ... </answer> and then go later and define what those mean as far
- as on screen presentation. ideally this might lead to full support for
- SGML and DTDs and all of those heavy-weight but powerful constructs.
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- the real answer might be "edit in a real SGML environment, then edit the
- tags so they work with HTML browsers". in that case what I'm really
- asking for is design for a frequently asked questions DTD, and I'm
- (currently) sorely lacking the tools needed to experiment my way to an answer.
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- On Tue, 3 Nov 1992, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
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- > (a) you need more variety of tags, or that
- > (b) the 24x80 representation of the existing tags is suboptimal, or that
- > (c) the task is impossible by its nature -- you must rewritethe document.
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