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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KWord status
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2001-02-12 10:01:30
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> > First, Thomas is right in that the tags are expected to remain 
> > stable over several (many?) versions of kword. However,we all 
> > know it is not perfect. That's why there is a syntaxVersion marker.
> 
> If the tag set is required to remain unchanged, I think this shows
> a poor design... more than likely that the tags represent internal
> data structures, or some form of procedural markup.
> 

Please take a good look at the KWord DTD before saying things like this..

> One advantage, perhaps the main one, of style vs. content separation
> (external style sheets) is that the *real* interpretation of the
> content (tags, attributes, and text) becomes a function of the 
> stylesheets themselves.

That does not work since KWord is not a simple application that only
does text (ala html markup style). It does frames as well. And more then that..

Besides; the styles are allready seperated, the content-markup tags are not
in the text, we do have paragraps.. Should I continue?

The DTD has been written a long time ago, it has been refined by many and if you
find a problem, fine. Talk about it.
But don't just say "I think this shows a poor design..", be constructive here...

-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new
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