- From: Brian Kelly <B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:17:20 -0000
- To: jon@hackcraft.net
- Cc: 'Charles McCathieNevile' <charles@sidar.org>, 'Christian Wolfgang Hujer' <Christian.Hujer@itcqis.com>, 'David Woolley' <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>, www-html@w3.org, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> > > I wonder whether there may be circumstances in which a > rigourous exact > > definition may be important - perhaps in legal documents; > scientific > > pages, etc? > > Yes, I'd buy that. I'd also accept the possibility of the > inverse case, where > many of the different (whether subtly or strikingly so) > definitions, nuances, > etymological references and so on could be identified (say > for an in-depth > analysis of a poem or another piece of literature). > > I'd see both of these as being specialist applications > though, providing the > framework (perhaps through RDF or similar) may be a suitable > task for an > application not tasked with providing for that specific > speciality, but > providing the full capability in a language like HTML seems a > bit much. That's a perfectly reasonable suggestion. I guess the options are: Abbreviations (and maybe alt tags for images) are metadata. There will be added layers of complexity from what appears on the surface. Therefore a simple document markup language should leave such issues to a richer and more appropriate language, such as RDF (and to take on board Ernest Cline's message sent a few second's ago, if abbreviations aren't regarded as metadata they can be regarded as presentational and should therefore not be including in XHTML 2.0 - but for a different reason). Abbreviations (and certainly alt tags for images) may be metadata but they are also capable of being easily understood and deployed. It would be desirable to include a lightweight way of provides support for such features in a new document markup language, as has been done with HTML. Comments? Brian --------------------------------------- Brian Kelly UK Web Focus UKOLN University of Bath BATH BA2 7AY Email: B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk Web: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ Phone: 01225 383943 FOAF: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/b.kelly/foaf/bkelly-foaf.xrdf For info on FOAF see http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/b.kelly/foaf/ > -- > Jon Hanna | Toys and books > <http://www.hackcraft.net/> | for hospitals: > | <http://santa.boards.ie> >
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