At 05:49 PM 10/21/2004 +0100, you wrote:
So, does this mean that I now not only have to download the master xml file, the css, and a set of conversion tools? You must be kidding, right? If it came to that, I would rather have the plain text and forget the page numbers. It is already inconvenient to use "lynx -dump -nolist filename.htm." Why in the world would I want to run it through a conversion tool and still have to do that anyway? OK, so a plain text file can be output directly from the xml. I still have to go through at least one extra conversion step that I wouldn't have to otherwise.
Why? The whole idea behind PG moving to XML is not to complicate things, it's to give more flexibility while retaining simplicity. How about this situation:
Apparently context was lost here. The "why" is that, according to what Joshua was saying, the page numbers are not available anywhere in the plain text because they would look ugly. OK, I understand that and I myself might not even want them most of the time. However, if I decide that for a particular file I want them, I have to go to the master xml document and do my own conversion. The PG supplied plain text won't help me, and the html won't work correctly in Lynx or IE. Therefore, I have to redo the conversion to get the information I want in the plain text file or whatever other format. This does not seem simpler to me.