RE: BP 24: what's all that about?

> From: public-i18n-its-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-i18n-its-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Yves Savourel
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> BP24 is about telling people to try to avoid putting XML/HTML 
> markup as "text" in their content.

Hi Yves,

Your reply doesn't give me more than I can currently read in the document.
My problem is, I think, understanding what you mean by 'markup as text'.

By 'as text' do you mean, eg., examples like we have in the BP document?

What's wrong with <p>This is a paragraph</p> ?

RI


> 
> The issue is that in the absence of a way to know about it, 
> such content is treated as text and making the distinction 
> between real text and codes is lost. Even if such content is 
> identified most tools will not be able to do special parsing for it.
> 
> The point is if you are going to store XML/HTML data in an 
> XML document, you might as well use the namespace mechanism.
> 
> Using "text" for this also pushes people to use CDATA with 
> all the implications.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> -ys
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-i18n-its-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-i18n-its-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Richard Ishida
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 5:42 AM
> To: public-i18n-its@w3.org
> Subject: BP 24: what's all that about?
> 
> 
> I give up.  I guess I could pour over this a little more, but 
> I'm not clear from a couple of looks at this BP what the 
> issue really is. It doesn't seem to be well described by 
> "Avoid storing markup in escaped form in your documents."
> 
> Can someone please elucidate for me?
> 
> RI
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Received on Tuesday, 4 December 2007 14:53:26 UTC