- From: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 08:07:28 +0000
- To: Markdown List <public-markdown@w3.org>
Hi Paul. Glad you've joined us On 20 November 2012 01:34, marbux <marbux@gmail.com> wrote: > Polyglot poses some challenges in terms of drafting interoperability > conformance requirements. I.e., difficult to use markdown as an > intermediary to round trip docs from and to markup languages that are > far more featureful. > > I'm not opposed to polyglot, but it requires some thought and study. > > I'm not knowledgeable enough yet about variants to opine, but I'm > wondering about defining a core profile then defining variants as > supersetting profiles, then seeing how far we could get in borrowing > the conformance requirements of the W3C Compound Document by Reference > Framework for interop purposes? > <http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-CDR-20070718/#conformance>. Two points raised. Both scope related. Does anyone expect 'round tripping' from a MD implementation? For me, that is a nice to have and implementation dependent. Terminology. Would someone give a definition of polyglot MD? Do we need a glossary page? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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