- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:04:46 -0800
- To: www-tag@w3.org
I have an action item to do some editing the third bullet point in http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/intro which currently reads: Specifications of a nonexclusive set of data formats designed for interchange between agents in the system. This includes several formats used in isolation or in combinations (e.g. XHTML, PNG, XLink, RDF, SMIL animation, Ruby), as well as technologies for designing new formats (XML, Namespaces, DOM). Chris Lilley asserted, and agree, that this does not capture the fact that some of the specified semantics of these languages have grown into (at least de facto) architectural importance. I suggest addressing this by leaving the text untouched (left to myself, I might tighten it up a bit by shortening lists) and appending one sentence. Specifications of a nonexclusive set of data formats designed for interchange between agents in the system. This includes several formats used in isolation or in combinations (e.g. XHTML, PNG, XLink, RDF, SMIL animation, Ruby), as well as technologies for designing new formats (XML, Namespaces, DOM). Some of these formats are sufficiently ubiquitous that their semantics may be considered part of the Web architecture: examples include the elements inside HTML's "head" element and the prescribed error-handling behavior for XML processors. Cheers, Tim
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