Re: 12 February 2001 ER WG Telecon Minutes

At 06:43 PM 2/12/01 +0000, Sean B. Palmer wrote:
> > Perhaps we need an EARL term "needs longdesc" or "needs alt."
> > or more generic "needs attribute." That's a defined EARL Term,
> > then give the name of the attribute.
>
>Yes; I think that anything which isn't a "core" to EARL should be defined
>in an EARL module. "needsLongdesc" and "needsAlt" could be part of an ADL
>module,

Or, instead of having "needsAlt" as part of earl, we'd just have

needsAttribute

and then let the HTML 4.01 spec be the reference documentation for the 
attribute names, e.g.

:x      earl:needsAttribute      html:alt .
where the html: namespace is defined by http://www.w3.org/TR/html4

or (dropping name spaces for a moment)

:x :needs :y .

:y :type :attribute
:y :name :alt .

Len


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