Re: Portal Layout Markup Language

["Jury Gerasimov" <jury@softshape.com>]

> > So the data (content) XML format is really the question. It should allow
to
> > apply different views (skins) and be close to HTML tags (like XHTML); in
the
> > same time it should keep the semantics (where is the header, where is
the
> > article itself, what is the source, etc.) as much as possible (like
> > XMLNews). Is there any XML vocabulary for layout description which can
save
> > the sematics ?
>
> Ahh, I believe I'm beginning to understand you now. If you're under the
> control of the content sources (which I assume you are) you're probably
best
> off by creating a specialized format for exactly what you're trying to do.

Perharps I will fihish with that, but now I'm still trying to follow to the
mainstream. It would allow me to use the XML content in different
applications other than only skinned HTML pages (WAP and voice navigation
may be good examples).

> If you'd like to go with some sort of standard, you may want to look at
RSS
> and scriptingNews.

AFAIK, RSS 1.0 incorporates ScriptingNews advantages, so why do you
recommend the choice between them ?

Jury Gerasimov

Author of Chameleon Clock  - a tray clock replacement
with support of Winamp skins, alarms, and atomic time.
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