Fwd: RE: Transformation + FOs makes abuse easy

["Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's a little ways out from the discussions that have dominated this list,
but I thought it might raise some interesting issues.  (text/xfo would be
for documents using the XSL Formatting Objects vocabulary.)  I'm violently
opposed to these transmissions, but the use of MIME as a supporting
infrastructure component seems likely, so I thought I'd put it on the radar
screen.

>From: Miles Sabin <msabin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: "'simonstl@xxxxxxxxxxxx'" <simonstl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: Transformation + FOs makes abuse easy
>Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:41:28 +0100
>
>Simon St.Laurent wrote,
>> As a result, the 'meaningful Web' project that was the 
>> driving force (at least in public) for the creation of 
>> XML is at risk.  Server-side transformation from 
>> semantically rich private vocabularies to presentation-
>> oriented public vocabularies may leave the Web exactly 
>> where it was before - interesting to read, but not very 
>> useful. 
>
>Silly question, but (modulo the invention of a few new
>mime types), wouldn't the distinction between,
>
>  Accept: text/xml, text/xsl
>
>and,
>
>  Accept: text/xfo
>
>resolve this issue? Ie. if you're happy to recieve a
>presentation-oriented server-side processed document you
>use the latter. If you want it undigested, you use the 
>former.
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>Miles
>
>-- 
>Miles Sabin                          Cromwell Media
>Internet Systems Architect           5/6 Glenthorne Mews
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> 

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