mousemoves - 9:03 am on Jan 13, 2001 (gmt 0)

imho i think it will be so nice to think of the logical spec and be able to apply it. any spec! my code does meet the spec for html. it does separate structure from presentation and block-level/inline is an example. just in case someone out there thinks i'm a beginner, at many things yes, but not when it comes to html or style sheets, it is far too trivial. browser implementation of these specs is entireley not trivial and is no doubt the reason behind most of the problems. in my last post, i appreciated the fact that oilman explained in more general terms the global idea of structure and presentation, whereas i basically just wrote out an example, which was a stupid thing to do.

HTML specifies what each tag attribute means. XML uses 'tags' only to delimit pieces of data, and leaves the interpretation of the data completly to the application. source: w3.org

Grnidone compares the ability to work with html which is less strict then when working with xml. i.e if working with html, strict adherence to the spec is not required but it is required when working in xml otherwise the application reading the 'tags' will be lost.

here is a good article on XML by Scientific American for anyone whom is interested: [sciam.com...]