- From: Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol) <skw@hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:37:02 +0000
- To: "noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com" <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- CC: "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
Hello Noah, > -----Original Message----- > From: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com [mailto:noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com] > Sent: 13 September 2008 02:14 > To: Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol) > Cc: www-tag@w3.org > Subject: RE: ACTION-156: Review of > http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/selfDescribingDocuments-2008-05-12.html > > Stuart Willams wrote: > > > > Re 4.2 URI Based Extensibility (anal) comment on: > > > > "This [dynamic spec discover, implementation...] is done by: > > - ensuring that every specification, and in many cases each markup > > tag or data value used, is identified with a URI." > > > > > > Maybe we are talking at cross purpose. Maybe you are talking about > > the markup and data values used in the specifications themselves - > > eg XPATH/XQuery establish URI both for a bunch of functions and > > operators, but also the corresponding part of the specification > > document that describe each function/operator. > > I meant to alert you to the fact that in the draft published last week > [1], I made a small change that I am hoping will ease your > concern. The > phrase in question now reads: > > "ensuring that every specification, and in many cases each >markup tag > name< or data value used, is identified with a URI" > > I hope this helps. > > Noah > > [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/selfDescribingDocuments-2008-09-08 > > > -------------------------------------- > Noah Mendelsohn > IBM Corporation > One Rogers Street > Cambridge, MA 02142 > 1-617-693-4036 > -------------------------------------- Thanks for trying - I can live with the change, however, it does remain unclear to me particularly wrt to "markup tag names" whether you are talking of: 1) the name of an occurence of a tag in a document (which might be named by say an xpath based frag id extending a document URI - though formally the FYN story stumbles a little in RFC 3026) or 2) the name of a kind of element eg. the xhtml html element which presumably has to appeal to something like schema component designators. However, I suppose given that I can conceive of way to do either it perhaps doesn't matter what you had intended. Stuart -- Hewlett-Packard Limited registered Office: Cain Road, Bracknell, Berks RG12 1HN Registered No: 690597 England
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