Updated flow diagram re: XHTML

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@cranesoftwrights.com>]

Hi folks,

I've just updated the diagram and posted it at:

  http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xslt/contributions/Holman-20000706.gif

This diagram changes the markup of the human-legible content of a rendered 
configuration to be XHTML instead of HTML.  If the report we produce has 
sufficient anchors (perhaps copying a lot of the meta data from the XML 
file), then a user of a configuration can use XSLT to mine both the 
machine-legible content and the human-legible content if they wished to 
create composite information from both.

This would have been more awkward if our format were HTML (requiring 
something like Tidy to make it XHTML) ... but then, what about legacy 
browsers not accepting XHTML?  Let's keep it this new way ... if someone 
wanted to create a version using SGML lexical conventions they can use a 
6-line copy stylesheet with the HTML output method.

.................. Ken

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