>I think I've just discovered that we are both arguing for the same
>thing. My point is exactly that the _document_ is not the smallest
>unit we care to change. I just meant to point out that because we
>care for finer granularity, and because currently no standard exists
>for updating at arbitrary granularity, we need a standard.
A standard *does* exist for defining the objects you might want to update:
the SGML property set (possibly reflected through the DOM). Given this
definition, defining operations on it is a simple matter of programming.
Or said another way, you don't need a standard for the control language
(although it's useful to have one) if you have a standard for the data
model to be controlled.
Cheers,
E.
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