- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:27:52 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
Tina Holmboe wrote: > On 22 Aug, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: >> But, for a markup language to be useful in marking up complex and >> multifaceted real-world content, there may be no other way than to >> create a complex language specification. > > That depends on whether you create /one/ language to mark up /all/ > real-world content or not. > > The problem with creating an authorcentric markup language that can > be, via attributes, infinitly extended, is that you are adding near > infinite complexity on the /user/ end of things. Completely agree (although I didn't touch on it in my replies, admittedly). > Practice in the SGML world has always been to create specialized > languages. HTML is - and XHTML could have been - a limited, but > generic, language. It's not meant to mark up everything. In this case then, using extensibility and namespacing, things like CompSci specific markup, as well as mathematical/chemical/etc specialised languages should be used, rather than keeping those very specific (in the case of samp,kbd,var) and those completely inappropriate (imho) elements (sub/sup) completely out of the generic language. P -- Patrick H. Lauke __________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com __________________________________________________________ Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ __________________________________________________________
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