Talk:Separation of content and presentation

Requested move 12 September 2017

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The result of the move request was: moved per consensus. — usernamekiran (talk)  21:07, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Separation of presentation and content → Separation of content and presentation – The content comes first (at least in draft structural form) or there's nothing to present and to wrap any presentation around. Another alternative would be Separation of presentation from content (which also implies the pre-existence of at least a theoretical content structure from which to separate the presentation; see also the closely related form follows function and structure follows strategy concepts). The sources cited are not consistent on the order of the words (or even which are used; some do not use "presentation" at all). — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  07:15, 12 September 2017 (UTC) --Relisting. Steel1943  (talk) 16:56, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Support, per nom, a logical move. Good eye. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:36, 12 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Oppose Both are widespread, but in electronic publishing "presentation and content" is the longer established and wider used in substantial sources. Clark (2008) and Cohen (2004)  are two of the best known and widely cited within the developer community, 2000-2010, when this was a newish [sic] idea being sold to web developers. It actually dates back to the 1980s, if anyone has a library for the paper sources. Andy Dingley (talk) 14:13, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Uh, "2000-2010, when this was a newish idea being sold to web developers" is misleading. Separation of content and presentation is central to the entire idea behind CSS, which was introduced in 1994 (after the need to do so had already been under discussion for a long time, as you know), and widely implemented by 1997. No Web developers of the era, other than home-coding amateurs, were unfamiliar with the idea. It's unclear to me why you think two books from one field should determine the word order, when clearly there is no set wording in RS more generally, and the current order is potentially confusing and not WP:CONSISTENT with similar articles.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  18:42, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Support. And gentlemen, an en dash is basic English for ranges: 2000–2010. Tony   (talk)  01:20, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I just copy-pasted. "Not me, not me!"  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  18:54, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Support – the alphabetical order is more common and more standard when order doesn't matter. Dicklyon (talk) 01:39, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Hadn't even thought of that, but it's another reason to move it.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  18:54, 24 September 2017 (UTC)


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LaTex, forsooth
I strongly object to Latex being called a markup language or supposedly having a role in SoCaP. Latex embeds presentation in content. You might as well say that Word native format is a "markup language".

Better example is XML as it's used in technical writing. I'll have to revise this article accordingly sometime soon. Isaac Rabinovitch (talk) 18:20, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

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Semantic markup
Beginning in the 1980s technical writers began working to improve documentation and the publishing process by recognizing that content development (writing, usually) is a separate effort than presentation (graphics, typography). First came GML and SGML (first used to mark up legal documents using semantic tags). HTML is a subset of SGML but got corrupted by presentation-oriented tags and attributes (, for example). DocBook and DITA are two widely-used XML grammars that use elements named for their semantic role (title, task, step, stepresult, and so on). Hoping someone from that world has time and energy to add a section on it. I'm from that world, but had just enough time to write this. 108.2.169.181 (talk) 12:59, 18 June 2024 (UTC)