- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:45:35 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Cc: public-html <public-html@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Elliotte Harold wrote: > > For instance, in data mining, "Applications and tools that process HTML > and XHTML documents for reasons other than to either render the > documents or check them for conformance should act in accordance to the > semantics of the documents that they process." > > This statement indicates an underlying belief that semantics are > interoperable and that a document can in fact be said to have a > particular set of semantics which can be shared and transferred between > independent parties. > > Of course, I expect most data mining tools to more or less ignore this > statement and infer whatever set of semantics they need from the syntax. If a data mining tool is trying to make a list of headers in a set of documents, and it does so in a way that treats <samp> elements as headers and <h1> elements as not headers, then it is non-conforming. I don't see any thing wrong with that. If the spec allowed such behavior I would say that was an error in the spec. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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