Re: How do we point into a web page [was minutes from 30 October 2000]

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

Received on Monday, 13 November 2000 23:56:05 UTC