- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 21:27:07 +0100 (MET)
- To: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>, "Joel N. Weber II" <nemo@koa.iolani.honolulu.hi.us>
- Cc: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>, connolly@w3.org, Chris Josephs <cpj1@visi.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Feb 3, 3:11pm, Paul Prescod wrote: > Joel N. Weber II wrote: > > > > On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, Chris Lilley wrote: > > I think that the scripting API ought to allow HTML text, the tags and > > attributes to be changed. Clarification: I would like to point out that I did not write the sentence quoted above; Paul appears to have summarised what Joel and I were discussing and attributed it to me. > #1. Validating documents would become meaningless and useless. Depends on how the change was done. It is possible to rearrange a valid SGML document instance into another, valid, SGML document instance. > #2. Search engine results would depend on their level of support for > "interpreting" HTML documents. Again, depends on how it was done. If all the content is there, search engines can index it all. > #3. Existing SGML tools would all break, or be much less useful > (depending on how the change was done). I agree with the second part of your sentence. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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