> I very much think that most people who are actually quite serious
> about data longevity would never choose HTML as the canonical form in
> the first place.
It depends on the application. I designed the (very long) online
grammar course here at the Writing Centre using the TEI DTD, and I
convert to HTML with my own SGMLS.pm conversion package; on the other
hand, I maintain a number of pages containing welcomes, lists of
workshops, announcements, resources, etc., and for these the HTML
files _are_ the originals. It would be nice to be able to keep one
stylesheet for all of the Writing Centre files _except_ HyperGrammar.
Secondly, of course, the stylesheet question is even more relevant for
other, more better-implemented DTDs, once general SGML becomes more
common on the Web.
David
-- David Megginson Department of English, University of Ottawa, dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA K1N 6N5 ak117@freenet.carleton.ca Phone: (613) 562-5800 ext.1203 WWW: http://www.uottawa.ca/~dmeggins FAX: (613) 562-5990