RE: Why WYSIWYG for XML???

[Chris Gooch <chris -dot- gooch -at- lightworkdesign -dot- com>]

Maybe it will clarify if we introduce some new terms:

WYSIWYM	- What You See Is What You Mean

WYSIAYG	- What You See Is All You've Got
WYSIWTCS	- What You See Is What The Customer Sees


WYSIWYM is a Very Good Thing. It can be as graphical as
you like, that's not quite the point.

WYSIAYG, and WYSIWTCS, are Bad Things. Generally speaking
most WYSIWYG systems mean the latter and therefore degrade
to the former. 

Defending WYSIWYG as being a means to provide a really
useful top-notch WYSIWYM system (Chris D, Laurel, maybe
others) misses the problem that others have with WYSIAYG.

Does this help clarify the debate?

Anyway, my take is that WYSIWYM could be plain text markup,
or it could be a semantically driven graphical markup system
with intelligent menus etc. -- but traditional WYSIWYG
isn't that.

hth,
Chris. 

Christopher Gooch, Technical Author
LightWork Design, Sheffield, UK.
www.lightworkdesign.com



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