Which style first ? Re: Associating DSSSL style sheets with documents

Richard Light richard at light.demon.co.uk
Mon Mar 10 13:47:37 GMT 1997


In message <9703100537.AA05622 at sqrex.sq.com>, lee at sq.com writes
>
>I wanted to point out that it is used for two different purposes.
>First, it is used to identify the type of the entity.
>Second, it is often used to specify how to process the entity.
>
>This assumes that all objects of the same type are always
>processed in the same way.  But this is not the case.
>
>If yuo want to link from a document to style sheet, you could
>reasonably (I think) use processing instructions.
>I don't yet know how XML will decide to do this.

Just a thought.  XML is planning to give give us a more powerful
[hyper]linking mechanism, with semantics on the links (yes?).  Could we
use that mechanism to differentiate the differing roles of external
entities?

Richard Light
SGML and Museum Information Consultancy
richard at light.demon.co.uk
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Burgess Hill
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