> From: public-i18n-its-request@w3.org > [mailto:public-i18n-its-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Yves Savourel ... > 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 > > > > -----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 > > > > ============ > Richard Ishida > Internationalization Lead > W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) > > http://www.w3.org/International/ > http://rishida.net/blog/ > http://rishida.net/ > > > > >Received on Tuesday, 4 December 2007 14:53:26 GMT
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