Re: Semantic markup for tabular data

[Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>]

Ooh, ooh, me, me!

I'm going to take a whack at it Kevin, just so the semantic markup gurus 
can tell me if I've got my head screwed on straight.

Your customer needs to know which of your products are compatible with 
some subset of their systems. Your customers need information. They do 
not necessarily have to get that information by running their fingers 
down a table.

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?

Dick

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