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Article #130Re: format/structure, procedural/descriptive markup
From: Darrell Raymond
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 02:23
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 02:23
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I like Dan's distinction between structural and formatting markup, but I propose we avoid assuming that: >Structural markup is an abstraction of formatting markup. The reason is that some presentational effects are not related to structure, but are just there because they are pretty or whatever. For example, indenting second and following paragraphs might be considered to be purely presentational, and with no structural relevance. Eliot says in a followup message that there is a many-to-one relationship between presentation and structure; I'm suggesting that the relationship is actually many-to-many, and that the derivation of presentation from structure is not mandatory, but simply common. -Darrell.
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Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!watserv2.uwaterloo.ca!watdragon.uwaterloo.ca!drraymon From: drraymon@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (Darrell Raymond) Subject: Re: format/structure, procedural/descriptive markup Message-ID: <BsFtBE.Hqq@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca> Organization: University of Waterloo References: <1992Aug3.193817.2863@news.eng.convex.com> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1992 02:23:36 GMT Lines: 18