ingram (there's too many jons running around here) said:
At the moment the markup we use is homegrown and kludgy
yay! somebody actually said it, right out loud!
-- we have a great opportunity at the moment to move to something more sensible, and I strongly believe that some simple XML-derivative is the markup we need.
"simple xml-derivative" is an oxymoron.
I'm even more convinced of the utility of XML for DP now that I've seen how easy it is to style it. One of the problems of relying on something like XSLT is that it can be hard to go backwards from errors in the output to find the corresponding error in the original XML input. Being able to get direct feedback by viewing a styled version of the XML makes life much easier.
yep, things will be a lot better when the current crop comes to realize some of the benefits of w.y.s.i.w.y.g. (threw the baby out with the bathwater on that one...) if we could take the 5-year learning curve on _that_ and do it simultaneously with the one on stylesheets, that would be _really_ great, wouldn't it? -bowerbird