- From: Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:37:20 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
The vocabulary collection for literature markup exists, a complete specification too: http://purl.oclc.org/net/hoffmann/lml/ If there are ideas to improve this, feedback is welcome of course (one option for an update could be an element like svg:use, because it appears, that quite a lot people currently use PHP etc mainly just to simulate this element for (X)HTML output; another option could be a more realistic indication for date and time, more realistic than the current HTML5 and the LML approach, what would be relevant more for literature than for daily tag soup. And no - I will not add unicode spelling details for element names, element content, attribute values or general strings in each section ;o) But I do not know a native implementation for the complete specification apart from generic XML support, partial support for XLink and CSS in some user-agents. The biggest problem is currently, that common user-agents have incomplete or no implementation of even the simple type of XLink, what is no problem of course for a mixture with or an integration in (X)HTML, because (X)HTML has its own mechanism for hyperlinking. And currently it provides only some (default) style-sheets for visual presentation, because I have no experience with style-sheets for other types of presentation and no device to test such presentations. If there is a real interest to extract some subset applicable for an integration in (X)HTML with some noticable and usable final result, this would be fine and if required and requested I could help ;o) On the other hand, I have not much interest to write yet another wiki-page, specification, proposal, whatever, just as a personal occupational therapy ;o) Therefore if there is no common aim to really extend (X)HTML with some more semantics, I recommend using html:div and html:span together with the already existing LML vocabulary with a role mechanism or with RDFa (or an equivalent mechanism to provide relations to other vocabularies). This requires almost no extra work on drafts to what seems to be already work in progress in the current HTML5 drafts and is already applicable within SVG tiny 1.2 and the XHTML+RDFa recommendation. Olaf
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