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At 06:23 PM 4/10/99 -0400, David Megginson wrote: >Chris Lilley writes: > > > Walter Underwood wrote: > > > > > Why <lang> instead of an xml:lang attribute? > >(And many other very good questions.) I will look into the mismatch >in the ISO 8601 profile; otherwise, however, XMLNews-Story is designed >to be subset-compatible with the XML version of NITF. The W3C Note is here: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime >Many people -- mostly leading technical specialists in the news >industry -- have put a lot of careful work into NITF (née UTF) over >coming on a decade now, and we didn't see any good reason to split the >market by introducing a competing format; ... Understandable. As I said about RDF a couple of days back, two formats are almost never better than one. As a search engine writer, my interest is in common conventions across different formats. So far, I've only found one thing that is common to almost every DTD -- the first <title> tag is the title (the major exception is the NAA "adex" DTD for classifieds, where <ad-slug> is the closest thing to a title). HTML has some conventions for search-engine metadata (title, description, keywords, robots). With XML, the administrator needs to map each DTD to these elements -- more work, more chance for error. And if the data is not there, not in a parsable format, or in a separate metadata file, the search engine is handicapped. I expect to ship our next release pre-configured for NITF, but I sure would like to see some common practice beyond <title>. Mostly, our customers would appreciate it, and the people doing searches would get better results. wunder -- Walter R. Underwood wunder@i... wunder@b... (home) http://software.infoseek.com/cce/ (my product) http://www.best.com/~wunder/ 1-408-543-6946 xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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