- From: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@x-port.net>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:01:08 +0100
- To: "Karl Dubost" <karl@w3.org>
- Cc: "Al Gilman" <Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org>, XHTML-Liste <www-html@w3.org>
Karl, > but the issue, I have raised is about the second aspects, which is > the mechanism to prefetch values and their definitions in a user > agents. The same way, it is possible to fetch DTD, schemas, etc and > do something with them because the software knows the grammar for > reading a DTD or schema If I understand you correctly, you are saying that behaviour can be defined using RDF, and this RDF can be retrieved at run-time based on the use of @role. If so, I agree with you 110%. That has been my 'dream', so to speak, since even before I got involved in the HTML WG. ;) However...as Shane has pointed out, what the group has been very careful to do, is not *mandate* this approach. I think we've gone about as far as we can at this stage of the language's development by adding the necessary hooks for such functionality--@role, RDFa, and so on. The next phase is to let people use it, and see what emerges. Taxonomies like the one Al refers to will begin to emerge, and then we can start looking at how we define the features of those taxonomies, how we locate them, and so on. But it would be premature to try to define this now, since we just don't have the experience. (And that definition need not be in XHTML 2 anyway, but should be a separate spec.) So, the state of play is that we have a mechanism that can be used in a many ways...we have a 'hook'. This hook could be used simply as a container for a unique cookie that a browser or some server process understands inately (the QName as identifier), or the hook could point to some data to be retrieved and used by a process, such as a server-side transformation or dynamically in the browser itself to control behaviour (the QName as URI). But at the moment implementers can choose how to use it. Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck CEO x-port.net Ltd. e: Mark.Birbeck@x-port.net t: +44 (0) 20 7689 9232 w: http://www.formsPlayer.com/ b: http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/ Download our XForms processor from http://www.formsPlayer.com/
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