Re: mlw-lt-track-ISSUE-51 (too-many-global-rules): There are too many pointer attributes and global rules in general [MLW-LT Standard Draft]

Hi Dave,

It is the latter, see Yves comment. I only created an issue since Yves
and I had mentioned that in July, I think, but we lost it.

Best,

Felix

2012/9/21, Dave Lewis <dave.lewis@cs.tcd.ie>:
> Hi Felix,
> Is this an issue that the examples need to be improved, or are you
> saying that the blanket use of pointer and refpointer in data categories
> needs to be re-examined?
>
> thanks,
> Dave
>
> On 21/09/2012 15:14, MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
>> mlw-lt-track-ISSUE-51 (too-many-global-rules): There are too many pointer
>> attributes and global rules in general [MLW-LT Standard Draft]
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/track/issues/51
>>
>> Raised by: Felix Sasaki
>> On product: MLW-LT Standard Draft
>>
>> Taken from
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-multilingualweb-lt/2012Sep/0135.html
>>
>> [
>> It also seems that some of those examples, and others in the specification
>> (including some of mine probably), are a bit unrealistic from a real-life
>> processing viewpoint.
>>
>> The idea that we would produce global rules (external or embedded) that
>> use selectors to annotate a XML/HTML5 document seem not very practical. As
>> soon as the document changes (for example a new <p> element is added above
>> the existing one in this examples) the selector points to the wrong
>> paragraph.
>> In other words, using rules to annotate works if the document is
>> 'read-only'.
>>
>> The main function of global rules, IMO, is to define stable information
>> about a document, or even better, a type of document.
>> We started to overload this with Localization Note, where we used rules
>> for non-local annotations.
>> And now in 2.0 where we have many data categories that are annotations, it
>> seems we routinely assume that annotating a document using global rules
>> and hard coded selectors is just fine. But I think it's often not a viable
>> scenario in real life.
>> IMO annotations should be local or standoff (a local attribute points to
>> the annotation).
>>
>> My concern is that people from the HTML WG, and other reviewers, will look
>> at this and wonder about the applicability of ITS.
>> ]
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