[JDEV] Rich Text in Jabber

[Peter Donald]

At 10:29  27/9/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Another thing I don't get is the style="..." attribute in the example.  The
>whole point of XML is to simply hold data in tags and attributes, however
>this attribute needs its own parser to grab 3 different values out of it!!
>I know it's not brain surgery to parse it, but it defeats the purpose of
>using XML.

well style predates XML and is generally considered a good thing. Style
takes CSS (or CSS2 ??) style directives and used to display presentation
properties. Even if you are a big fan of XSL (the child of DSSL and
supposed replacement for CSS) it is even worse because it seperates
everything out and you can end up with a 100k files turning into 4-5 MB and
is damn hard to decipher. XSL:FO is a lot harder to read and be thankful
you don't have to try to decipher it ;)



Cheers,

Pete

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