- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:21:18 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
Costello, Roger L. wrote: > <location> > <latitude>32.904237</latitude> > <longitude>73.620290</longitude> > <uncertainty units="meters">2</uncertainty> > </location> > How would you represent this in (X)HTML, with all of the semantic > richness retained? That is, can (X)HTML capture all of the semantic > richness, albeit in a different form/markup? I would say that no, HTML on its own can't. It has a very limited vocabulary, which is fairly generic for the most part. I'd think that the only way to mark this up while preserving the exact semantics would be to mix XHTML with another technology (as you would when combining, say, XHTML and MathML into a single document). You'd then need to make sure that you're sending your document as application/xhtml+xml or similar, rather than text/html. Also, it's not to say that the user agent at the receiving end will have any idea of how to actually interpret it, beyond purely displaying it. Once you give up on keeping the exact same semantics/structural relationships, then there are probably quite a few ways to mark this up...all of them inadequate for maintaining the richness of information of the original XML. 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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