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On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 23:49, Jonathan Borden wrote:
> I see your objection. Would the following be acceptable:
>
> <div rddl:nature="..."
> rddl:purpose="...">
> ...
> </div>
>
> alternatively:
>
> <rddl:resource
> rddl:nature="..."
> rddl:purpose="...">
> ....
> </rddl:resource>
Hmmm... How would we link the nature and purpose to the link target
then?
RDDL 1.0 lets you define several <a/> links in a rddl:resource, such as
in:
<rddl:resource id="v0.2"
xlink:arcrole="http://www.rddl.org/purposes#prior-version";
xlink:role="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict";
xlink:href="/0/2/" xlink:type="simple" xlink:show="none"
xlink:embed="none">
<div class="resource">
<h3><a href="/0/2/">V0.2</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>Addition of several sections (limitations, acknowledgements, history and legal) </li>
<li>Clarifications after comments through xml-dev and private mails.</li>
<li>Addition of an history section in <a href="compile.xsl">compile.xsl</a></li>
<li>Creation of a W3C XML Schema for examplotron (<a href="examplotron.xsd">examplotron.xsd</a>).</li>
<li>Start to feed the resources section.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</rddl:resource>
I find that very handy, but how would you know which @href should be
chosen when there are multiple <a/> in a single rddl:resource without
giving separate definitions?
And if we had to write :
<rddl:resource id="v0.2"
rddl:purpose="http://www.rddl.org/purposes#prior-version";
rddl:nature="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict";
rddl:link="/0/2/">
Or even
<div id="v0.2"
rddl:purpose="http://www.rddl.org/purposes#prior-version";
rddl:nature="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict";
rddl:link="/0/2/">
The difference with the current syntax seems pretty much limited to a
boycott of XLink which doesn't seem to be a benefit by itself to me!
The current version is verbose, but I think that this verbosity is
required for its expressive power.
Note that it can easily be compacted for edition when needed: I use a
"RDDL compact XML syntax" which is XSLT transformed into plain RDDL for
publication and this lets me add extra goodies such as TOC and indexes
generation.
Eric
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