[ACTION-19] Elaborate support annotation of grouping of CMS documents or CCMS components

Dear all,

I had an action item to "elaborate support annotation of grouping of CMS
documents or CCMS components". This may become an issue to discuss in
detail later, but here is my first take.

I would propose to define for all kinds of content, no matter whether an
HTML snippet, a single CMS content item, a group of components etc., using
the following mechanisms:

1) adding information to a span of text "locally"
2) adding information via a global, position independent mechanism.
3) describing defaults for a data category, no matter whether metadata is
set explicit or not. Example for "Translate" in XML: defaults for
attributes is that they are not translatable

Above is based on ITS 1.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-its-20070403/#selection-precedence
and a CSS like approach: 1) is like the "style" attribute in HTML, 2) like
the "style" element or links to external stylesheets, 3) like default
styling rules.

Our challenge is then to adapt 1-3 to CMS documents and components. I would
see 2) as the main means for this.

Comments are very welcome,

Felix

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Felix Sasaki
DFKI / W3C Fellow