- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:05:02 -0500
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: public-cdf@w3.org
(not speaking for the WG) On 2/14/06, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote: > > Dear Experts on Compound Document Profiles, > > I have a little doubt, I would appreciate your help. Is the "XHTML > Friends Network" -- http://www.gmpg.org/xfn/ -- a compound document > profile in the sense that W3C uses this term? I'd like to update some > conformance checkers if it's not... I think that's essentially equivalent to asking if an XFN document is a compound document. Technically, I don't think it is, as our definition says; "The compound document is a document that combines separate component languages either by reference or by inclusion" -- http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-CDR-20051219/#definitions ... and an XFN document is an HTML document with extensions, rather than two separate languages. But an HTML document with, say, an embedded(*) vCard would be a compound document because that vCard is interpreted independently of any HTML extensibility rules. FYI, I happened to write a blog entry about this same topic a few weeks ago; https://www.xfytec.com/community/modules/news/article.php?storyid=49 (*) the mechanics of embedding are important too viz a viz the semantic differences between namespace vs. media type dispatching. The CDI spec will hopefully talk in detail about this. Mark.
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