- From: Charles Peyton Taylor <ctaylor@wposmtp.nps.navy.mil>
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 23:09:23 -0800
- To: www-html@w3.org
>> Martin Bryan <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com> 10/17/96 01:00am >>>
>There is another side to this problem as well. Suppose I put class=name as an
>attribute and a Frenchman puts class=nom.
>Sematically these are the same, but there is no way that case conversion will
help
>to determine this.
>
>What we really need is something, like the RFCs relating to REV and REL, which
>suggest a set of useful class names that could be applied by anyone,
irrespective
>of their country of origin. Admittedly most people would not then be able to
use
>their native language to name such transportable classes, but the up-side would
be
>that they would be able to identify information of the class they require
without
>having to search for all the possible names for the class.
So why not have elements for this? For example, <name>, <person>, etc?
Tag soup is no more a mess than tag-and-attribute soup, IMHO.
Furthermore, having to use "internationally standarized" classes for an
element would keep us from using our own classes on the same element.
Charles Taylor
>Martin Bryan
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