Re: Working on glossary

> Martyn Horner wrote:
[...]
> I have a long way to go (it's up on the ramp and is being taken apart
> at
> the moment as you'll see) but the introductory notes might be worth
> opening to comment.  I attach the very preliminary hacked version of
> Graham's doc.

Indeed, I agree with this goal:

[...]
> While not wishing to produce a redundant document, I feel that a
> `tutorial' glossary is useful to help a reader form an internally
> consistent language before receiving the precise definitions of the
> specs. It is therefore important not to give the user redolent but
> false images which may cause him/her to resist the finer descriptions
> when they are encountered. Definitions here should be `natural' and
> easily assimilated.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

but we're clearly not there yet:

[...]
> Web Resource
>      Anything that is identified by a URI

Nope; that rules out real numbers... yada yada...

Since you don't claim to be done yet, I think I'll stop
here and save my review effort for a future draft.



-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Thursday, 16 August 2001 11:10:20 UTC