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"Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...> writes: > There is nothing more semantic about <name> than <font>. Yes there is, if you look at it in the proper context. For one thing, a search engine that could tell me that it found my search string within a <name> is probably more helpful in than one that found it within a <font>. The DTD can also tell me something about the semantics of <name>, especially if it is annotated with explanatory comments, or through a schema (although it needs to be simpler for a machine to look this up), but just by looking at the contexts where it can appear can be informative - <font> tags are likely to be legal just about anywhere. Further, element content that happen to have the same presentation fontwise don't necessarily mean the same thing, (in theory) nobody would put their phone number in a <name> element to get the right formatting. And, semantics are provided through style sheets or transformation/ formatting processes, just because one kind of use - e.g. formatting for display - treats <name>a and <phone>s the same, doesn't mean that other processing does. Finally, meaning can be provided to tags through shared tag sets ("DTD inheritance"), ideally, XML documents on the web should use standard formats for common elements (names, urls, dates...) as much as possible. -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants 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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