Re: About locating subject results and context

Hi Charles and All,

At 17:57 22/04/2005, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:44:13 +0200, Christophe Strobbe  
><christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:
>
>(...)
>>Apologies for butting in on this so late, but I don't understand why it  
>>is so important
>>that EARL should support reports for anything outside the Web. After  
>>all, this is a
>>WG of the World Wide WEB Consortium, not the World Wide Stuff Consortium
>
>Hi Christophe,
>
>in general I agree with you. But I think one of the important use cases  
>(the one that got me to get Danbri tohelp me produce one of the prototype  
>EARL things) insideW3C is describing software tools that are not  
>necessarily themselves on the Web.

I agree that we need identifiers for the tools, the evaluators etc that are
involved in anevaluation. I should have clarified that my comment was 
aimed at attempts to find mechanisms for locating errors/issues in 
non-Web resources. For XML-based markup languages, we have XPath, XPointer;
for CSS, we have line and column numbers; and for some other popular 
formats (PDF, Flash, ...) we're still in the dark. I just meant to say that
we shouldn't worry about location mechanisms in physical objects etc.,
but maybe that was already obvious to most of you, so my objection 
wasn't that important after all (sigh).

Regards,

Christophe



>So we need to be ableto do some moderately web-less reporting. The toaster  
>example is beyond the real scope of EARL, but for a 5 minute hack it seems  
>ike a useful test of our model - if we can clearly explain how to write an  
>EARL report for a toaster then we have some hope of writing one for the  
>conformance of a specification to SpecGL (which for the purpose of the  
>exercise isn't really about things on the web either).
>
>Although actually writing the reports for SpecGL would be a better test  
>case really :-)
>
>cheers
>
>Chaals
>
>-- 
>Charles McCathieNevile                      Fundacion Sidar
>charles@sidar.org   +61 409 134 136    http://www.sidar.org

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