[thelist] Re: a horse! my kingdom for an XHTML horse! was RE: [thelist] Tablesvs Layers

[martin burns]

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At 03:09 16/09/00, Erika Meyer wrote:
>>Whats the point of being prepared an re-writing everything
>
>no, I don't mean rewrite everything.  I mean there's nothing wrong with 
>starting now and moving forward.

If you've a dynamic site, it's not going to be too hard, surely.

In your backend system, have everything marked up in XML. Then have your app
server/delivery system of whatever variety render that content into a 
language the
user agent understands. This may be HTML, may be XML/XSL, may be WML,
may be stuff for braille readers, may be HTML for specific agents (NN4, IE3,
AvantGo etc).


>>But is it ever really going to replace HTML as the
>>de-facto for web-markup? I doubt it..
>
>Why do you doubt it?  There will be no further versions of HTML.  So 
>therefore HTML is dead & IF (yes, big if) the browsers support XML, HTML 
>will just fall into disuse & die.

In how many years' time?

Cheers
Martin

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