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From: "Neil Tait" <neil.tait@tecsphere.co.uk>
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Subject: RE: Extending Document v1.2
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 16:23:29 -0000
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Hi Nicola,

Thank you for your reply, I understand that the source should only =
present the information, and not be concerned with the presentation. Its =
just that our needs extend beyond only the one style for fonts (for =
example).

I think we shall look at importing the doc v1.2 dtd into one that =
supports our own defined tags, that can then be output and styled =
accordingly.

Does this seem like a sensible approach?

Kind regards,

Neil=20


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-----Original Message-----
From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Nicola Ken Barozzi
Sent: 07 November 2003 10:29
To: forrest-dev@xml.apache.org
Subject: Re: Extending Document v1.2

Neil Tait wrote:

> Hello
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> Has anyone made any attempts to extend the document v1.2 DTD? Forrest=20
> seems ideal for a project of ours, but a bit light on the style =
vocabulary.

The style vocabulary should tend to 0 for us, as content (the source)=20
should only present the information, not how to present it.

So if you have a problem in how to output things, you can have the=20
necessity of using a custom DTD and/or a custom skin, as described in=20
the Forrest docs.

What are the things that you miss?

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Nicola Ken Barozzi                   nicolaken@apache.org
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