Re: issue-51 too many global rules

2012/10/23 Shaun McCance <shaunm@gnome.org>

> On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 15:52 +0200, Felix Sasaki wrote:
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> > I know - my point is not about pointers, but about "adding information
> > *without fixed values* to attributes or elements". I just can't
> > imagine people writing rules like this
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> > <its:locQualityIssueRule selector="//span[@id='q1']"
> > locQualityIssueType="typographical" locQualityIssueComent="Sentence
> without
> > capitalization" locQualityIssueSeverity="50"/>
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> >
> > That is, tailored to one "span" element. Am I wrong?
>
> I can't imagine people writing that either. But I can imagine programs
> writing it. Consider a program that outputs an ITS-annotated XML/HTML
> file based on machine-generated info and/or user input in some UI. If
> it needs to present info for an attribute value, the only way it can
> do it is by ensuring the parent element has a unique identifier and
> writing writing rules like this.ld
>

Sure - the question is just whether what is more important: allow for every
potential use case or focus on what implementors are agreeing to do now.
Again I feel remembered of all these global rules for ITS 1.0 (ruby,
directionality, even terminology), and I didn't see a user so far.

Felix


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Felix Sasaki
DFKI / W3C Fellow