RE: [xml-dev] re: Are hyperlinks presentation or content?

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Mark Seaborne <>
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Sean McGrath <>,
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2002-10-01T10:49:26Z
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RE: [xml-dev] re: Are hyperlinks presentation or content?
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean McGrath [mailto:]
Sent: 01 October 2002 10:31
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Subject: [xml-dev] re: Are hyperlinks presentation or content?

>I had cause recently to muse that the database concept of a "view" is one 
>of the more
>powerful ideas we somehow lost in the headlong rush to XML 
>content/presentation dualism.

>Come back database view technology: all is forgiven
>http://www.propylon.com/html/knowledge/Come_Back_Database_View_Technology_All_is_Forgiven_20020919.html

>regards,
>Sean

Funny you should say that. I have spent the last three or four months building GUIs over an XML message (using a proprietary, XForms-ish language), and it has been painful. One of the conclusions I have passed on to the powers that be is that it might be a lot easier not to bind directly to the message structure, but to have some intermediary structure.

Its just more transformation supporting transformation, I suppose!

All the best

Mark Seaborne


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