Re: Using existing staff.xml based tests with HTML processors

Would this approach require that all processors would have to support
XHTML Modularization?

--Mary

----- Original Message -----
From: "Manos Batsis" <m.batsis@bsnet.gr>
To: <bv@opera.no>; "Arnold, Curt" <Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com>
Cc: <www-dom-ts@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 6:48 AM
Subject: RE: Using existing staff.xml based tests with HTML processors


>
>
> XHTML test files must be valid to be XHTML in the first place; technically
speaking though, there is a way to have valid XHTML just by adding a
'wrapper'[1] to the existing files while using XHTML Modularization (either
in XML Schema [1] or DTD [2]). I would be very interested to help if
something like that is chosen, especially if XML Schema is involved.
>
> [1] like
>
> <!DOCTYPE  bla>
> <html xmlns="myDomain/bla">
>    <head>
>       <title>
>          Untitled
>       </title>
>    </head>
>    <body>
>
> <!-- existing XML content -->
>
>    </body>
> </html>
>
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xhtml-m12n-schema-20011219/
> [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/
>
> Kindest regards,
>
> Manos
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bjørn Vermo [mailto:bv@opera.no]
> > Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 1:40 PM
> > To: 'www-dom-ts@w3.org'; Arnold, Curt
> > Subject: Re: Using existing staff.xml based tests with HTML processors
> >
> >
> > 2002-03-06 18:36:21, "Arnold, Curt" <Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com> wrote:
> >
> > >I was thinking that you could produce an close [X]HTML
> > analogue of staff.xml
> > >by doing a direct translation of each element in staff to a
> > distinct [X]HTML
> > >element with a similar content model.
> > >
> > >Most of the elements simply contain PCDATA and have no
> > attributes, so you
> > >could make <employeeId> to <code> and <salary> to <pre>, etc
> > and could
> > >change <address domestic="">something</address> to <a
> > href="">something</a>,
> > ><employee> could go to <p>.  The only structural change that would be
> > >changing <staff> to <html><body>.
> >
> > I believe it would be more useful to use constructs like <div
> > class="employeeid"> and <a class="domestic" href=2xx">
> >
> > --
> > Bjørn Vermo
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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