- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:48:37 +0200
- To: public-wai-ert-tsdtf@w3.org
Dear TSD TF participants, One of the issues that were discovered during the implemenation of the new test samples database is that it would be desriable to have a "handle" for technical specs referenced by the 'technicalSpec' element <http://bentoweb.org/refs/TCDL2.0.html#edef-technicalspec>. The reasons are (1) that not every spec has an official URL (although it would be possible to use e.g. Wikipedia URLs if there is no URL from a standards body or a vendor for a spec) and (2) that the 'specName' element is an element type with mixed content that is prone to accidental changes (insertion of line breaks during XSLT processing or "indent XML" actions, conversion of entity references to actual Unicode characters) that make string comparison in the database less reliable than expected. We could address this by adding e.g. an attribute called 'handle' to the 'technicalSpec' element. We should then also agree on the values to be used in this new construct (consistency can be enforced by means of Schematron). For example, we could use values such as the following: * w3c_xhtml10 (XHTML 1.0), * w3c_css20 (CSS 2.0), * w3c_css21 (CSS 2.0), * ecma_262 (JavaScript), * ms_wmv (Microsoft Windows Media Video), * ms_asf (Microsoft ASF), * ... Of course we could also choose more "human friendly" values. Any thoughts? Best regards, Christophe -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ --- "Better products and services through end-user empowerment" http://www.usem-net.eu/ --- Please don't invite me to LinkedIn, Facebook, Quechup or other "social networks". You may have agreed to their "privacy policy", but I haven't.
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