Re: Initial Draft --Cascaded Speech Style Sheets

Jon Bosak (bosak@atlantic-83.eng.sun.com)
Wed, 14 Feb 1996 16:02:02 -0800


> From: preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece)
>
> Achieving descriptive markup requires adding a bunch of new,
> descriptive tags - things like PERSONAL-NAME, DATE, VOLUME, ISSUE,
> CHEMICAL-COMPOUND, etc. When you suggest that people hold their fingers
> in the sign of the cross and run off muttering about tag explosion.

Not everyone. Some of us note that this points up the need for a
mechanism that allows you to define tags as needed for particular
document types -- a mechanism such as generic SGML, for example.

Jon

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