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Subject: RE: [xtm-wg] XTM Requirements
At 16:10 30.06.00 +0100, Peter Jones wrote: >>Won't having fixed coord numbers in a given map risk >>privileging certain views? I agree. This discussion is about style sheets. I believe topic maps should represent abstractions only. We don't want to "contaminate" them with presentational or other processing information because, as you say, that would privilege certain views. Having said that, Jack does have a valid point: There are situations in which it would be useful to have a standardised way of expressing presentation semantics. I can imagine a tool which allows the user to set certain display parameters interactively (e.g. which icons to use to display which topic types, which colours to use for the arcs representing binary associations of a certain type, etc.) and then save those parameters as preferences in a style sheet. If the syntax of that style sheet were standardised it could be interchanged between applications. Very useful. This is what DSSSL was designed to do for SGML, and what XSL does for XML. However, at this point in time, we should concentrate on getting an XML representation of the *abstraction* out of the door. We can perhaps start gathering requirements related to presentation, but I think we have a very long way to go before we're anything like ready to create a useful, general solution to this problem. Just the fact that my examples introduce two display attributes shows that Jack's requirements are only the tip of an iceberg. Steve -- Steve Pepper, Ontopia AS (+47 908 27246) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create professional forms and interactive web pages in less time with Mozquito(tm) technology. Form the Web today - visit: http://click.egroups.com/1/5770/4/_/337252/_/962381295/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Post a message, send it to: xtm-wg@eGroups.com To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: xtm-wg-unsubscribe@eGroups.com
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