Re: [xtm-wg] Re: XTM tag line

[Murray Altheim <murray.altheim@eng.sun.com>]

Andrius Kulikauskas wrote:
> 
> Some more info on the XTM Tag Line, Paul Conn proposes "Style Sheets For
> Knowledge" if no one has any objections.  Their needed by Tuesday.
> 
> My feeling - this is one sentence that sums up everything that XTM is
> all about.  So that's a meaningful exercise for anybody who finds a bit
> of time.  A good tag line will help us keep our head straight, and a bad
> tag line will not only confuse others, but us as well.

I hate to have to state this so strongly, but this suggestion is about as 
far away from what I'd like as I can imagine. One of the most corrupting 
influences in the W3C as far as I'm concerned has been the strength of 
the CSS lobby on things like XSL, XHTML, SVG, etc.  CSS has really destroyed
a lot of otherwise "clean" specs. The last thing I'd like XTM to be 
associated with is style sheets. It really diminishes the importance of 
what topic maps are about, suggesting we're about appearance rather than 
actually content. The fur coat is more important than the person wearing
it, etc.

Murray

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Murray Altheim, SGML/XML Grease Monkey     <mailto:altheim&#64;eng.sun.com>
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