- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:41:13 -0500
- To: www-tag@w3.org
As I mentioned a few days ago, I've been interested for some time in doing a finding on the importance of self-describing documents on the Web. In fact, I started noodling on a draft over a year ago, then put it down for awhile. Now that Henry is working actively on XML Functions, I'm moved to get back to this. In short, I'm proposing that we do an overall finding about the importance of self description, and point to Henry's work in the particular case that what you've got is a representation of media type application/xml. Right now, self-describing Web is languishing as a sub issue of the all-purpose ultimateQuestion-42 [1]. I propose that we elevate it to a full-fledged issue of its own, albeit closely coordinated with xmlFunctions-34 [2]. More to the point, this note is to announce a very, very rough sketch of a draft finding on the importance of self-describing Web documents. It's publicly available at [3]. Please take a look. I would like to devote some time to exploring this at the TAG F2F in early March. Noah [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html?type=1#ultimateQuestion-42 [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html?type=1#xmlFunctions-34 [3] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/selfDescribingDocuments.html -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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