The discussion is about the form in which you share papers. With HTML you just share the HTML file, it opens instantly on basically any device.
If you distribute the paper as XML with an XSLT transform you need to run something that’ll perform that transform before you can read the paper. No matter whether that transform happens on the server or on the client it’s still an extra complication in the flow of sharing information.
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The discussion is about the form in which you share papers. With HTML you just share the HTML file, it opens instantly on basically any device.
If you distribute the paper as XML with an XSLT transform you need to run something that’ll perform that transform before you can read the paper. No matter whether that transform happens on the server or on the client it’s still an extra complication in the flow of sharing information.