FW: Semantic markup for tabular data

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Ah. So you're saying that I'd have picked one set of items... 
probably our products... and bashed the hell out of each one 
with all possible bits of metadata that define where it fits 
and doesn't fit in the greater scheme of "platforms the customer 
might have".

Then I make an app that dynamically builds just the table 
that the customer needs, by matching his input to any 
data item that has the matching metadata attached. ?

But, I can no longer publish the old-style table? Release 
Notes and compatibility listings can no longer be PDFs 
or printed docs?  I suppose that's acceptable. Except, 
I have to get that app developed before I even begin to 
convert the data, because once I stop being able to 
publish my old, readable table, I have to have the working 
replacement ready to go.

/kevin
 

Dick Margulis said:
[...] 
> Instead, picture a situation where the "document" "knows" 
> what systems 
> your customer has and matches that information with the 
> attribute tags 
> you've added to your product list (in a database, say). Now the 
> "document" (I'm guessing an html document by the time it gets to the 
> customer's browser, although it will have passed through some 
> XML stuff 
> in the middle) shows the customer a short list, perhaps a two-level 
> bulleted list, of your compatible products with the list of 
> his systems 
> subbed under each. Or some other format, including a tabular 
> one, but in 
> any case none of your concern. Your job is just to get the attributes 
> tagged, and the DTD takes care of the rest.
 
> Am I close?

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