[thelist] The Future of Browser-Bound XML?

Joel Konkle-Parker jjk3 at msstate.edu
Wed Jul 3 18:30:01 CDT 2002


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Whoops, talking about random XML, not XHTML (which already has HTML
semantics)

- -joel

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>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Michael Mell [mailto:mike at nthwave.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 03, 2002 3:14 PM
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> If we agree that CSS is an adequate page layout method, can I shoot
> the browser a style sheet and an xml file and get a well formatted
> page? Not
at
> present, not with current browsers, as far as I know.

Er... XHTML is well-formed, valid XML.  Therefore, yes, you can.

- From Section 1 of the document[1] you linked:
"XHTML documents are XML conforming. As such, they are readily
viewed,
edited, and validated with standard XML tools."

Obviously XML is a superset of XHTML, and therefore there are an
infinite
number of XML docs that would not be valid XHTML (and may not display
as
readily in a browser); however it is clearly quite possible to write
a pure
XML file which, when combined with a proper CSS file, will display as
expected in a browser.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
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