Re: Spec edits: div/span and @dir/@class

On Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 10:38:21 AM, Jonathan wrote:

JK> Many thanks for this, Chris.

JK> On 24 May 2011, at 18:37, Chris Lilley wrote:

>> Hello Jonathan,

>> I'm going through the disposition of comments and the actions list,
>> trying to pull together the spec edits that need to be done. Here is
>> the next one I have found.

>> I18N-ISSUE-7: Paragraphs and inline content 
>> http://dev.w3.org/webfonts/WOFF/DoC/issues-lc-2010.html#issue-13

>> I18N-ISSUE-8: Direction attributes needed
>> http://dev.w3.org/webfonts/WOFF/DoC/issues-lc-2010.html#issue-14

>> The edits for these two issues consist of adding a) div and span elements as children of 'text' elements, 

JK> That's what I thought. What confused me, though, was your mail of Apr 6 responding to I18N:

JK> <quote
JK> src="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-font/2011AprJun/0000.html">
JK>   The content model is as follows:

JK>   'vendor', 'credit', 'description', 'license', 'copyright', 'licensee',
JK>   'text', 'name' and 'item' have a mixed content model of text content,
JK>   'div' and 'span' elements.
JK> </quote>

I re-read that yesterday while updating the RNG and I can only conclude that my mail of 6 April was confusing two things. One, the elements that got new children; second, the ones that got @dir and @class.

JK> which seems to call for these to be used even in metadata
JK> elements (vendor, credit, licensee) that are currently defined as
JK> empty elements, 

Which would make no sense. Sorry for the confusion.

JK> holding their information in simple attributes.
JK> Was it really intended that we should radically change the content
JK> model for these, or was this an oversight?

JK> JK




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 Chris Lilley   Technical Director, Interaction Domain                 
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead
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