- From: Pablo Olmos de Aguilera C. <pablo@glatelier.org>
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:15:00 -0300
- To: Ryan Freebern <rfreebern@unionstmedia.com>
- Cc: marbux <marbux@gmail.com>, "public-markdown@w3.org List" <public-markdown@w3.org>
On 25 November 2012 09:49, Ryan Freebern <rfreebern@unionstmedia.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:09 PM, marbux <marbux@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Pablo Olmos de Aguilera C. >> <pablo@glatelier.org> wrote: >> >> > Then after almost a week I don't understand what is a "profile". >> >> I'll take a swing at answering that, since it's a definition I >> researched about 3 years ago. >> >> Given a specification A, a profile is a subset (B) of the >> supersetting A specification. In effect, a sub-specification to which >> implementers can claim conformance. A superset specification can have >> multiple subsetting profiles, optimally layered so that each profile >> incorporates by reference all profiles with a smaller feature set in a >> linear fashion until the full specification is reached. Hence the need >> to begin by identifying and specifying a "core" profile and working >> our way outward to a full specification. And by logical extension, >> once the full specification is supersetted, it becomes a profile of >> the new superset specification. > > > Thanks, Paul. Your description clarifies the profile/spec setup nicely. +1 > Pablo and Max, does this help? While certain commonly-used markdown > constructs may be absent from the core profile, they'll still (often) be > made available in a higher-level profile, and hence part of the full spec? I believe that what is currently used, should be the "smallest" sub-set. So, following our example, including underlines, trailing hashes should be our baseline, core profile, or w/e. Regarding this is a very simple/lightweight markup I don't see why we should be complicating things more. Anyway, we can't "vote" header syntax by itself. We should decide if we are going to take a "profile sub set driven profile" or not. I don't have any experience about "specs" at all, only my common sense. I don't know if I missed something, but I don't remember that we ever discussed that. Regards, -- Pablo Olmos de Aguilera Corradini - @PaBLoX http://www.glatelier.org/ http://about.me/pablox/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/pablooda/ Linux User: #456971 - http://counter.li.org/
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