Jon Knight wrote:
>
> On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Simon Cox wrote:
> > In an earlier posting which sank without a trace (I shouldn't
> > have changed the "Subject" field, I guess) I also raised
> > what I think is a related question about mechanisms
> > for doing the translations between DC and other formats.
> > If I am not mistaken, if XML/SGML were used for encoding,
> > then this should be manageable with generic tools using DSSSL?
> > Or am I really chasing herrings up the wrong tree??
>
> Now I'll be the first to admit that I know precious little about DSSSL
> but
> isn't that more to do with style sheets? A sort of CSS on acid? I
> can't
> quite stretch my mind around how style sheets interact with resource
> type
> metadata. Of course if I've misunderstood what DSSSL is, this is a
> great
> time for someone to explain it to the list... :-)
A stylesheet specifies how something stored in a
"neutral" format is represented by a user-agent.
The transformation is determined through an
understanding of how the *meaning* of an object
type can be implied to a user.
The requirements inherent in mapping from one
set of attribute descriptor terms to another
mean that a similar method can be used.
eg - <H1>content</H1> in HTML
-> centred, bold, large font in a graphical browser
similarly, we might say
Sound as DC.type
-> audio as a MIME type
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