- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 20:03:15 -0000
- To: <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>
- Cc: <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
Len, > - an accessibility assertion could apply to a part > of CSS or Javascript inside a web page. These > are typically (and prefereably) inside comments... > so we need to point to text inside comments! > Can we do this with Xpointer? No, because CSS and JS are not XML formats, and therefore you can use XML processing technologies on them. You would have to use a Perl script, or other C++ based langauge to parse and transform CSS and JS. It is possible to annotate XHTML in this way though. > These are leaning me in the direction of just considering > the page one big text string against which we make XML > or RDF statements. That would reqiure a *lot* of AI technology! I'm afraid there is no forseeable way in which that can be done. Actually, I thought it could be up until a few days ago, but then lots of people on RDF IG argued with me to the contrary. Only Sanskrit is possible to parse (strangely enough!). The solution - or rather the *only* solution, is to make HTML more semantic in the first place, or allow the addition of meta-data within the <body> section, thus marking up semantically the CDATA inside. Then we can process it! In theory, at least... Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer "The Internet; is that thing still around?" - Homer J. Simpson
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