Re: [Comment on ITS WD] Allowing for xpath expressions to point to term definitions

Hello i18n core,

This is a reply on behalf of the i18n ITS working group. See also
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3464 for our discussion.

Thank you very much for your comment. We agreed to implement it. Please
have a look at
http://www.w3.org/International/its/itstagset/itstagset.html#terminology-implementation
.


Please let us know within 2 weeks if you are satisfied. If we don't hear
 from you , we will assume this issue as closed.

Regards,

Felix


ishida@w3.org wrote:
> Comment from the i18n review of:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-its-20060518/
> 
> Comment 22
> At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0606-its/
> Editorial/substantive: S
> Owner: RI
> 
> Location in reviewed document:
> 6.4.2
> 
> Comment: 
> Please provide a mechanism to point to a term definition if it doesn't have an associated id? Eg. in a DL list, where the successive DT and DD elements contain terms and definitions without ids. Surely something like termInfoPath is needed.
> 
> 
> Example 19 shows this scenario quite clearly. Terms are identified, but not linked to the definitions given in the example.
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> FS: You could point to term definitions with a termInfoPointer attribute: 
> 
> 
> <dl> 
> 
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> <dt>...</dt> 
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> <dd>...<dd> 
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> </dl> 
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>  possibly in a different document (see my reply to your comment 50 below): 
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> <its:termRule selector="//dl" termInfoPointer="following-sibling::dd"/> 
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> 
> For consistency, I would propose to keep the naming scheme "xxxPointer", and not "termInfoPath". Also for consistency, where should be a global or local termInfo attribute (if the ITS group decides to accept this proposal). 
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Received on Monday, 11 September 2006 02:42:06 UTC