- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 18:17:21 -0000
- To: <www-annotation@w3.org>, <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>, "HTML WG" <w3c-html-wg@w3.org>
"Laurent Denoue" <Denoue@fxpal.com> >So I would like to understand your motivations for using >XPointer-like anchors to annotate documents. >It does not make sense to me, unless you specifically need to >annotate the structure of a document. In this case, I would >like to hear more about these applications. In our Evaluation and Repair work, it's important to be able to point to the structure of a page, to say for example - that some <img> in the middle of the page should have an ALT attribute, or some other problem with the structure. Fuzzy Pointers seem to work very well for this, and obviously rather than just inventing our own Pointers we're re-using XPointer syntax. From an Annotea point of view a:Context has many flaws only one of which is the XPointer, and we need to start again on how we identify what is being annotated, as you suggest looking at more human level content - or at the very least using structure+check that the structure is valid. I do have some reservations about human level alone, on complexity grounds (sufficient to uniquely identify any content in a document, and how non humans go about generating annotations.) Jim.
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