RE: empty metadata elements

> LOL - oops <sheepish look />
> Of course there is no document that defines the accessibility
> element. There is a DC working group looking at the potential use
> of metadata in accessibility and it's an element in the e-Govt
> Metadata Standard(e-GMS) but I'm so used to putting "DC." in
> front of my element names that somehow that one inexplicably
> slipped through the usual rigid control I have over my keyboard ;P
>
> Well spotted that man ;-)

You had me worried there.
I knew of the working group, and you led me to think that maybe they'd
produced something in the main DC namespace I wasn't aware of.

Hopefully any such element would use schemes (to allow for different ways of
stating accessibility assessments). As such a null value would be
meaningless, but it might be meaningful with a schema which only allowed for
one value (e.g. if a WAI scheme allowed for "A", "AA" and "AAA", but only
one of those, then null would presumably mean that none of those applied) -
however if such a scheme had a value defined which meant there was no such
qualification this would be more useful in being more explicit.

Received on Tuesday, 11 February 2003 11:03:34 UTC