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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Hopeful suggestion for kword
From:       Richard Bos <allabos () freeler ! nl>
Date:       2001-04-26 19:54:26
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Is the citation not just a table at the end of the document.
So it should be possible to put the citation in an xml structure/format, 
isn't it?

On Thursday 26 April 2001 20:01, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 April 2001 17:30, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > Yes, but it makes it incompatible with most XML tools, which suppose that
> > formating is either automatic ( <?xml-stylesheet ),  in the tags (like
> > the "id", "class" and "style" attributes of XHTML with CSS)  or inline
> > (like for example <b> element in XHTML.)
>
> But that means that the formatting has to be done with extra-tags. Tags
> like <p> or similar.
> That would defeat the whole purpose of using xml.
> Again, XML is about seperating content from markup.
>
> Take a page like slashdot (the html), and try to read it.
> A xml document like kword is a lot more readable then that because you have
> a paragraph of text contained in 1 text tag.
>
> If we still want to use XML (and we do) AND do what you suggest, to insert
> <p>, <b> etc into the text we would take twice the time for loading since
> we then mix 2 concepts, the XML concept and the markup-language concept.
> And this is very bad design.
>
> To illustrate this in other words;
> kword works in structures. We have frames in framesets and paragraphs etc.
> This nesting, and structuring is ideally illustrated in an XML document.
>
> Besides the perl script to do what you want to do is very easy to create in
> either case. Its not like its some obscure algorithm hidden in closed
> source software. Its just counting characters...
>
> And if we would change, in 2 months someone would come along and wants to
> search the xml documents, and complains that he can't find "some text"
> since we have "some <b>text" in the XML...

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Richard Bos
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