Re: Clarifying TAG Re: Courtesy notification: call for consensus on HTML normative language reference issues

"Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, 2010-03-03 08:02 +0000:

> Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, 2010-01-03 22:42 -0800:
> 
> >  Mike also mentions that he's not sure if including a full schema is the 
> >  right thing to do, since none of the available schema languages is 
> >  expressive enough to represent all of the HTML5 document conformance 
> >  requirements. I know other members of the Working Group share this concern. 
> >  Mike and I decided that the best way to handle this is to use the usual 
> >  bug/issue process. Thus I have filed 
> >  <http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8611>.
> > 
> >  TAG members are encouraged to Cc themselves on the bug and/or add comments 
> >  if they have an interest in this issue. After suitable discussion in the 
> >  HTML WG, Mike will enter an Editor's Response in the bug, and if necessary 
> >  we will escalate it to an issue. Though hopefully we can settle it with 
> >  minimum fuss.

I moved the status of bug 8611 to resolved=wontfix. Per the
process guidelines in the HTML WG decision-policy document[1],
that means anybody is free to reopen if they disagree with that
resolution, and to add a comment explaining why.

  [1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html#basic

Here is the Rationale section of the comment I added for the
status change:

  In its current form, the H:TML document would not seem to me to
  be the optimal place to publish a schema. I think the group
  needs to first consider the larger question of whether it should
  publish a schema or set of schemas at all, and if so, what
  exactly to publish -- and then consider how/where to publish it.

I think discussion of what kind of schema or set of schemas (e.g.,
RelaxNG plus Schematron plus whatever else) to publish, and how to
publish it, should be raised either as a new bug or as an HTML WG
Tracker issue.

  --Mike

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Michael(tm) Smith
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Received on Monday, 15 March 2010 10:50:09 UTC