XML usage

From: Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 16:50:17 +0000
Subject: XML usage
Groups: php.doc.chm 
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Hi! As I searched some more info on XML compatibility in IE browsers, I am not convinced, that this would work in the browsers we currently work with (inlc. IE 4). The most important thing about why I would not like to start working with generating XML stuff now, is that some time ago I wrote many PREGs to extract things from DSSSL generated HTML files, and many people convinced me, that using XSLT is the right way, so I started to use the XSL DocBook sheets (which are available for HTML and Print versions). I quite nicely figured out how to do things, and how to customize the ready made HTML sheets. Though it was a development from the ground up, as PREGs are not too useful as a base if you develop XSLT. Now, as we are talking about generating some custom XML format, there is no XSLT to generate it, and so we need to ge even deeper, as we have no base (like the ready made HTML sheets for DocBook), we can use. If we start again from the ground, no release time will come with all the features and staff anounced (including the skining, and other nice features). So, let's work with HTML from now on. It is even the native format of HTML Help [thus the name HTML Help :) ], and it will even be a base format in MSHelp 2.0 [no, not XML will be the base format]. Goba

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