Re: XAG 2.3 and xlink

<DPawson@rnib.org.uk>
> Jim said:
> > Consider this:
> >
> > <image xlink:href="shepherds.jpg">
> >  <alternative xlink:href="shepherds.html" type="text/html">
> >  <alternative xlink:href="shepherds.rdf" type="application/rdf+xml">
> >  <alternative xlink:href="shepherds.svg" type="image/svg+xml">
> > </image>
> >
> > Seems a reasonably flexible way to define alternatives to our image
> > element.
>
> Semantic nit. Its no longer an image? Hence wrapper tag is wrong..

The problem with this is approach is that <mediaObject ... > in SVG say
would just be a misleading name, the Mark-up language I was imagining
creating above called for an image, however I want the ability to say
that this information is also available in alternative forms.

Yes if you were creating a language where you could include content of
any type, then a different wrapper would be fine, anyway I don't like the
above for the reasons I gave.

[Sort of OT note]
Incidently the svg representation of the shepherds SVG is
http://jibbering.com/2002/8/img-desc.svg - if you imagine the text being
spoken and the navigation provided by the N/E etc. how close to getting
self voicing are we?

Jim.

Received on Tuesday, 3 September 2002 09:42:14 UTC