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> Because when you don't have the ability to be proud of what it says,
> you can fall back on being proud of how it looks?
You just can't help yourself, can you John! ;-)
Is the question not: WHY would you use XML for WYSIWYG?
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My mind says STOP! STOP! But my fingers just type merrily along.
Seriously...is it maybe those who have never taken a single-source
project from content creation through multi-format output to multiple
finished deliverables who are the ones who can't see past appearances?
If you are creating content with three different outputs, say for
example, paper, help, and web, you begin to realize that you CAN'T
create content to satisfy all three visually at time of creation, and if
you pick one, the other two suffer.
I learned content creation using WordPerfect 5, before there was wysiwyg
(this also applies to any content creation tool of the same ilk). It
required that you type in character mode and picture in your mind what
it was going to look like in printed form, and I did format-intensive
association newsletters, some up to 32 pages long. That skill was one of
the best things I ever learned, even to this day.
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