Re: [CDR] Multiple Child Documents?

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Svante Schubert wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Section 2.1.3 - is there any possibility that a single element 
> > > > could reference MULTIPLE documents? [...] The working group 
> > > > discussed this during our meeting today.  No languages that we 
> > > > know of allow this or are planning to.
> > 
> > HTML4's <img> element (src and longdesc) is one example that comes to 
> > mind. There are others.
>
> You are right on this. It is possible to reference from HTML to 
> multiple documents. This behavior is well defined in the HTML spec

Actually it really isn't. In fact, the HTML spec defines <object> probably 
better than it defines its other inclusion mechanisms (not that that is 
saying much, given how vague it is about <object>).

The HTML5 spec will unambiguously define inclusion mechanisms for all of 
HTML's various inclusion features, including <img> and <object>, though.


> and as WICD core define external documents only by the OBJECT element 
> this scenario is not in our scope.

I don't really understand what that means. Is HTML (or XHTML) out of scope 
for WICD? What languages are in scope, if that is so?


> Therefore we do not specify to reference multiple documents by a single 
> document.

How should a CDR UA handle a document with an element that references 
multiple documents, then? It seems like it will be hard to obtain 
interoperability if you do not specify this.


I do not feel this issue is resolved, but as it seems that CDF are not 
targetting Web browsers and Web content authors (which are the communities 
I am concerned about) I retract this and any other objections I may have 
raised on this specification.

Cheers,
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Received on Tuesday, 3 October 2006 21:41:07 UTC