- From: Jon Bosak <bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 14:34:23 -0800
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@www10.w3.org
- CC: bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM
[Terry Allen:]
| And in response to Jon's clear statement, I certainly don't want to
| forbid him from taking this approach, and there is nothing in XML 1.0
| to prevent him from using it, but I don't want to be *required* to use it.
|
| Put another way, I need to be able to bind link behavior to my document,
| and I want to be able to describe relationships that do not map
| to behaviors.
I think that we're in complete agreement on this part.
When I send you XML data ("you" being a human, a browser application,
or a nonbrowser application), I want to be able to:
1. Specify the behavior without telling you what I mean, or
2. Say what I mean and let you figure out what to do with it, or
3. Specify the behavior and tell you what I mean, but require that you
follow the specified behavior regardless of what you think about it,
or
4. Specify the behavior and tell you what I mean and let you make up
your own mind about whether to follow the specified behavior.
As the content provider, I want all of these options.
Note that what I have just said applies to both the linking and the
non-linking parts of the document and for the same reasons.
Jon
Received on Thursday, 23 January 1997 22:30:04 UTC