format for body of annotations

From: Doug Daniels <rainking@rice.edu> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:19:52 -0600 (CST) To: <www-annotation@w3.org> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0301231519310.19069-100000@bunker.ece.rice.edu> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 + w3c-0.30 : Friday, 25 March 2005 11:19:19 GMT

Hi all,

I'm trying to figure out how to format the body of annotations for
annozilla, and there  doesn't seem to be a standard in place.  Right now,
Amaya 7.1 is creating annotation bodies that look like:

 <html>
   <head>
     <title>Annotation of whatever</title>
   </head>
   <body>
     <p>some body text goes here</p>
   </body>
 </html>

this sort of annotation 1) has no doctype and 2) has no namespace.  as
such, when annotest.w3.org serves this document up with mimetype
"application/xhtml+xml", poor mozilla becomes utterly confused.  seeing a
standards-compliant mimetype, it tries to render in standards compliance
mode.  however, without a namespace and/or doctype, there's no styling
info, and the whole process gets hosed.

so, I suggest that we have our clients, especially amaya,  put a namespace
and/or doctype in the body html.

what do you all think?

regards,
Doug