- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:19:28 -0400
- To: Laurence Penney <lorp@lorp.org>
- Cc: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>, www-font@w3.org, 3668 FONT <public-webfonts-wg@w3.org>
On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 22:37 +0100, Laurence Penney wrote:
> Could you point to where these restrictions are listed? If you're
> talking about Ruby markup (or any angle-bracket markup), then I'm not
> sure why such markup would not be encoded with < and > and
> quotes as entities - whether <bar>text</bar> or <foo bar="text"/>
I'll reply just in case you're seriously suggesting such an ugly
hack :-)
It's not a good idea because you can't then process the markup
with XSLT or XQuery, or edit it with an XML-aware editor, or mark
the name and value as being in separate languages, or use ITS to
mark a particular name or value os "do not translate".
<item>
<name>Socks</name>
<value>black</value>
</item>
is preferred over
<item name="Socks" value="black" />
HTML and RSS are not good examples to follow in this regard...
Liam
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