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... :-)
Tatty bye,
Jim'll
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