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Subject: RE: Style Matters - A class act
From: "Pawson, David" <DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 13:54:54 -0000

>Dave said:
>Flawed argument Didier, if the information provider is going
>to give you access to the stylesheet, why don't they simply
>link back to the XML source? That way I have the true
>original semantics, without interpretation.
>Does that make sense?
>
>Didier replies:
>True, we can, as well, have a pointer to the original XML 
>document included
>in the HTML document. However, it helps to be able to link the 
>XML object to
>their encoding into HTML. For instance, to know that the 
>element <rowset> is
>now encoded as the element <table>. I also impose a certain 
>discipline to
>create a container for all transformation. The container is 
>then back-linked
>to the XML document.

And what of literals from the stylesheet? Are they linked back
to the stylesheet, or since they are present in the output file,
they are not marked with the link?

Regards, DaveP


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