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18:30-20|  Ericsson Cyberlab NY  JohanHjelm :   XML and Style  .
|18:56| JohnMaxwelHudson : JohanHjelm , WWW consortium . Johan : Boston
 ex-Sweden | WWW @ MIT . Web was CERN . Euros .51 % wk Swede web usage .
 Japan 4+ char sets . Yokohoma w3c site . Swiss 4 langs - living in Japan .
 80 people working grp .
XML : Lang for creating Langs : panacia for creating panacias .
 derivitavie of SGML .
 DocumentTypeDeclaration Describes tags . work going on making std e-commerce
 DTDs .  Taking EDI datastructure moving into XML .
 client must have XML Parser .
 XHTML ( called Voyager after Next Generation ) to replace HTML .
 XHTML is XML verson of HTML4 . Is modular : lists , framesets , tables ,
 etc . special for mobile -  working draft available .
 Big Idea : Separation of content and style .
 With Style Sheets :
  XML all tags semantic .
  < ?xml-stylesheet href= "mystyle.css" type= "text/css"? >
   defined typefaces , size , tec
  Style sheets can handle langs w non-alphatetic chars . can actually embed
  translations .
 Style sheets place grid on screen .
 Fixed pixel tables ~ same on all displays .
 Today - style sheets ~ work very well - things up in air @ Netscape - don
   Opera  Browser from Norway  VG .
 Tim Berners-Lee`s idea - editor browser - never see (X)HTML . [ naive ]
 Web Telephones - retrieval mostly . ( Japan has 6 formats used on moble web
 - mess 80 companies ) WML - Request w content CompositeCapabilities /
 /PreferencesProfile . eg : country specific .  Position , equipment -
 structured framework in RDF . - extensible  < RDF ...
 Map one XML tree to another .
 XtensibleStylesheetLanguage . | not work w eg . HDML from UnWiredPlanet .
 Document Profiles  ResourceDescriptionFormat : metadata .
 mixing of scripting ( forms ) & content .
  < RDF xmlnl:RDF="http---- "   ( defining NameSpace )
  < RDF:DESCRIPTINO ABOUT="--" prf:Default="--" PRF:Sound="off"
   PRF:Memory="32mB" />
 XML uses lowercase .
 W3C working on scalable wavelet graphic .    enhanced format negotiation
 Voice : aural stylesheets existed for voice for few years .
 WebTV not realy what it should be . @home format .
 Non-text StyleSheets . auditory - how make hyperlink ?  Inflection markers &
 typography , styling separate . navigation difficult .
 Use < alt >  , use clent-side < map > & text for Image hotspots .
 provide captioning & transcripts of audio ,  Don``t use "click here"
 Use headings , lists  , & consistent structure . use CascadingStyleSheets .
 Longdesc attribute for graphs .
 Frames Evil .  Avoid column layouts .
  www.w3.org/wai/ 
  www.w3.org/XML/   |19:56|

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