RE: [all] call for consensus: externalPlaceholder from Yves Savourel on 2012-07-04 (public-multilingualweb-lt@w3.org from July 2012)

From: Yves Savourel <ysavourel@enlaso.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 06:20:09 +0200
To: <public-multilingualweb-lt@w3.org>
Message-ID: <assp.0532bd2e9c.assp.0532336ffe.002b01cd599c$4d423fd0$e7c6bf70$@com>

Hi Shaun,

>> The only aspect that may be missing is some information about what the 
>> resource is. I realize this can be obtained by the extension of URI of 
>> the resource. Maybe that is enough.
>
> I'm open to having an attribute to specify 
> the type of the external resource, perhaps 
> externalResourceTypePointer. Many vocabularies have 
> a way to specify resource types. In actual practice,
> I've never had a translator ask for this.

If this has not been an issue in practice it's probably not worth adding then.

Cheers,
-yves

Received on Wednesday, 4 July 2012 04:20:37 UTC