[thelist] RE: The future of XML

[Chris Garrett]

Tammy Rudotski said:

> People will soon be viewing your site with a text browser
> that only show 6 lines at a time.


I think this is a way too often used argument in favour of XML/XSLT. It
assumes that you can use the same content from your web site on a WAP phone
or PDA - you can't. If I do a 2000 word article for my web site, I can't
just transform the XML and present it as WML. I could do the really dodgy
thing of "here is the synopsis, check out the following url if you want to
read on" but how crap is that? You need to write content specifically for
each channel otherwise you will just end up with content that is bad for all
channels.

My 2p

Chris


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