Re: [XML Events 2] clarification request: WML reference

aloha, roland -- thanks for the clarification...  i should have done
more "due diligence" before posting my query -- especially since i 
participated in that face2face, albeit remotely...  i also thought 
that i had checked the latest editor's draft as linked to from the
WG's deliverables document, but apparently not...

thanks again, gregory.
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---------- Original Message -----------
From: Roland Merrick <roland_merrick@uk.ibm.com>
To: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>
Cc: public-xhtml2@w3.org, public-xhtml2-request@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
Sent: Thu, 1 May 2008 11:07:31  0100
Subject: Re: [XML Events 2] clarification request: WML reference

> Greetings Gregory, we agreed to remove this section during the 
> Venice face to face [1]. The editors have already removed it 
> from their latest edtor draft.
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2008/02/19-xhtml-minutes.html#item03
> 
> Regards, Roland
> FBCS, CITP
> IBM Software Group, Strategy, Software Standards
> 
> "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net> 
> Sent by: public-xhtml2-request@w3.org
> 30/04/2008 02:13
> 
> To
> public-xhtml2@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
> cc
> 
> Subject
> [XML Events 2] clarification request: WML reference
> 
> aloha!
> 
> in the 16 February 2007 draft of XML Events 2, Section 3.5., 
> "Event Handlers" makes an ambiguous reference to WML, without 
> providing a link to the resource's information in Appendix D:
> 
> <quote 
> cite="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-events2/#section-eventhandlers">
> 
> This specification does not require an XML application that uses 
> XML Events to use any particular method for specifying handlers. 
> However, the examples, particularly those in the section on 
> attaching the attributes directly to the handler, are intended 
> to give examples of how they could be specified.
> 
> It is however recognized that two methods are likely to occur 
> often: scripting (such as XHTML's <DEFANGED_script> element) and 
> declarative markup using XML elements (such as WML's <onevent> 
> element). A companion specification will provide markup to 
> support these methods.
> 
> </quote>
> 
> to which WML is the draft referring?
> 
> 1. WML - Website Meta Language (http://thewml.org/ - highly 
> unlikely)
> 
> 2. WML - Wireless Markup Language (most likely suspect):
> 
> 2.1.    <?xml version="1.0"?>
>         <!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//PHONE.COM//DTD WML 1.1//EN"
>         "http://www.phone.com/dtd/wml11.dtd" >
> 
> 2.2. if WML = Wireless Markup Language, shouldn't the reference 
> be to      WMLScript, which is the dialect of JavaScript used 
> for WML pages      and which is part of the Wireless Application 
> Protocol (WAP):     
http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/affiliates/wap/wapindex.html
> 
> in any event, there is no reference pertaining to WML listed in 
> either 
> D.1. or D.2.
> 
> gregory.
> 
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