Re: [XAG] drop search from checkpoint 3.2

"Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@w3.org>
> 3.2 Define navigable structures that allow discrete, sequential,
structured,
> and search navigation functionalities.
>
> I think search -based navigation is a function that properly belongs to
the
> user agent, not the XML application, and so we should drop the search
bit
> from this checkpoint.
>

My reading of enabling "search navigation" was ensuring that the data was
marked up in such a way as could be simply searched, consider an XML
format which seperates out each character in a word into a different
elements, this isn't particularly easily searchable.

<word>
 <letter>J</letter>
 <letter>i</letter>
 <letter>m</letter>
</word>

That's probably a rather silly example, but I'm sure you could have data
models which make searching harder, but it's unlikely people are going to
use them anyway I guess.

Jim.

Received on Thursday, 10 October 2002 07:12:43 UTC