Re: Ineffective pattern for CURIE

2012-05-10 Thread Shane McCarron
. Example a:1:more:time :1:more:time 1 more time would all be valid but 1:more:time would not be. -- Shane McCarron Managing Director, Applied Testing and Technology, Inc. +1 763 786 8160 x120

Re: Link to xhtml-datatypes-1.mod broken in XHTML Basic 1.1 and XHTML 1.1 DTDs

2011-01-04 Thread Shane McCarron
validation tools). I take your point ref the difficulty to update something in /TR space, I'm sure we'll find a way. There should not be any need to do that more than once in the spec's lifetime. Well, in theory that is ;) Francois. On 01/03/2011 06:46 PM, Shane McCarron wrote: Well... I

Re: Link to xhtml-datatypes-1.mod broken in XHTML Basic 1.1 and XHTML 1.1 DTDs

2011-01-03 Thread Shane McCarron
My recommendation is that you use the versions at http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD - these versions work and will be maintained. There shouldn't even be a version in TR space. I thought I had ripped those out for the new release. On 12/13/2010 11:29 AM, Francois Daoust wrote: Hi, The XHTML

Re: PER-xhtml-modularization-20100414: xhtml-ruby-1.mod missing from tarball

2010-04-28 Thread Shane McCarron
Thanks for pointing this out. We are looking into it. We will get you a formal response soon. Ville Skyttä wrote: Hello, xhtml.cat in the PER-xhtml-modularization-20100414 tarball http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/PER-xhtml-modularization-20100414/xhtml-modularization.tgz refers to

Re: XHTML Media Types

2010-03-10 Thread Shane McCarron
Thomas, Sorry for not replying to this earlier. We are making updates to this document, and have taken your comments into account. We basically agree with most of them. Some comments below: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: Hello all, while reviewing the updated

Re: XHTML 1.1 PER spec still lists class-attribute datatype as NMTOKENS

2010-02-22 Thread Shane McCarron
Okay - I have updated this document in place to reflect the corrections. Please let me know if you have any further comments. Shane McCarron wrote: Thanks for your comment Michael. The PER has not yet formally started review, but I will check with the powers that be and make this change

Re: xmlse:foo slightly substantive comment on CURIEs (both in stand alone document, and in RDFa PR) (PR#8053)

2008-11-12 Thread Shane McCarron
Jeremy, Thanks for your comment. The working group discussed this and has the following resolution. Please confirm if this resolution addresses your concern: We added a comment to the CURIE specification consistent with the submitters request. We were unable to make changes to the RDFa

[ACTION-4] Re: W3C TAG Response to CURIE Last Call (PR#8055)

2008-10-08 Thread Shane McCarron
to CR in the near future. Shane McCarron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * The introduction contains the statement: current Unfortunately, QNames are unsuitable in most cases because 1) they are NOT intended for use in attribute values, and 2) /current Whether or not they were originally

Re: XML CG comments on XHTML Role Attribute Module last-call draft of 7 April 2008

2008-10-01 Thread Shane McCarron
Thanks for your comments. The XHTML 2 Working Group has discussed these as a working group. Our comments are scattered below. C. M. Sperberg-McQueen wrote: Dear colleagues: Comments (4) through (9), on the other hand, relate to areas where the Working Groups of the XML Activity have

Re: [XHTML 1.1 Proposed Recommendation 11 June 2008] Invalid or out of date references

2008-07-16 Thread Shane McCarron
Thanks for these comments. First, I assume you are referring to XHTML Basic 1.1. I have updated the XML reference to the fourth edition. I have removed the XForms reference - it wasn't supposed to be in there and was not used anywhere. Thanks for bringing these to our attention. Shane

Re: Comment on CURIE Syntax 1.0 Working Draft 6 May 2008 (PR#8042)

2008-06-18 Thread Shane McCarron
Leigh, Thanks for your comments. The requested changes have been made with the exception of including a RelaxNG definition. The working group is in the process of developing an overall strategy on supporting RelaxNG. When that strategy is ready, we will introduce the appropriate datatypes.

Re: [role module] is 'must take Curie values' a problem for WAI-ARIA embedding in HTML? (PR#8041)

2008-06-17 Thread Shane McCarron
Al, The working group recognizes that the dependency on CURIEs is a risk, but is aggressively progressing the CURIE specification and is confident that it will become a Recommendation in short order. As to what the ARIA spec should require with regard to processing role values that are CURIES

Re: Forms WG Review of CURIE Syntax 1.0 Working Draft 6 May 2008 (PR#8039)

2008-06-17 Thread Shane McCarron
Leigh, We will clear up the wording to help reduce any potential confusion. We will also clarify that host languages are only required to use XMLNS for prefix definition if the language supports XML Namespaces. Thanks!

Re: XHTML 1.1 Transitional

2008-04-10 Thread Shane McCarron
It does not exist. Michael Wheelwright wrote: Hi, From my understanding 1.1 has done away with “Transitional”/”Strict” modes, however I’ve just received a request to develop something using XHTML 1.1 Transitional. Can you please clarify whether or not this exists this for me? Thank you!

Re: [curie] [editorial] [process nit] don't say it isn't stable

2008-02-11 Thread Shane McCarron
Al, Editor's drafts, prior to a publication for last call, in general should ALWAYS say they are not stable. A formal, published working draft will convey the appropriate sense of stability. Al Gilman wrote: The language q cite='http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2008/ED-curie-20080122/#status' It

Re: WD xhtml-modularization

2007-12-19 Thread Shane McCarron
We have removed the comment that implies IRIs are encompassed, isntead deferring to XMLSCHEMA to define the anyURI datatype. Thanks for your comment! Frank Ellermann wrote: Hi, http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/abstraction.html#dt_URI claims that the type anyURI in XMLSCHEMA

Re: Errata in XHTML Modularization (PR#10000)

2007-12-19 Thread Shane McCarron
We have implemented the change you requested. It will be present in the next public draft. Thanks for your comment!

Re: CURIE/suffix URI ambiguity (PR#8006)

2007-12-19 Thread Shane McCarron
The Curie Syntax document should warn that CURIEs that match the RFC 3987 production named IP-literal may be mistaken for suffix references (see RFC 3986 section 4.5) by permissive URI parsers. For example, [dead::beef] is a valid CURIE, but also a valid URI authority-part in the form of

Re: Error in XHTML 1.0 Second Edition Specification (C.14)

2007-12-18 Thread Shane McCarron
The XHTML 1.0 Second Edition spec contains a DTD, and that DTD [1] indicates the style element takes an id attribute. The normative DTD itself at [2] also says this. Your document, on the other hand, claims to be XHTML 1.1. XHTML 1.1 Second Edition DOES indeed permit the id attribute on

Re: XHTML Role Attribute

2007-12-17 Thread Shane McCarron
The reason there is not a schema version is because we did not want this spec to be dependent on the (extremely delayed for no obvious reason) XHTML Modularization 1.1 spec. As soon as we have M12N 1.1 advanced, we will update role accordingly. C. M. Sperberg-McQueen wrote: This is a

Re: XHTML Role Attribute Module: new values and namespaces (PR#8019)

2007-12-12 Thread Shane McCarron
Thanks for your comment. scoped values are an extension mechanism, and we need some mechanism for ready extension of roles. If CURIEs don't work out, we will have to consider other mechanisms, and full URIs are worthy of consideration.

Re: Concerns about SOTD of curie WD (PR#8034)

2007-11-29 Thread Shane McCarron
This is just W3C boilerplate. This document is the definitive specification for CURIEs, and it is not anticipated that any other specification will override it. The other specifications that currently include some form of CURIE definition inline are expected to (quickly) migrate to referencing

Re: Concerns about SOTD of curie WD

2007-11-27 Thread Shane McCarron
This is standard W3C boiler plate. The CURIE spec is the definitive resource for the definition of a CURIE. This boiler plate really applies to the future where, in some cases, some W3C documents have been merged with others or had their short names changed or what-have-you. We do not

Re: TAG Comment on: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-role/#sec_3.1.

2007-11-20 Thread Shane McCarron
Some comments inline: Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol) wrote: The TAG remains concerned about the possibility of even 'safe_curies' leaking into attribute values where plain URIReferences are expected. We may be more sanguine about mixing URI and (safe?) CURIEs in new language components

Re: Typos noted for http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/

2007-05-02 Thread Shane McCarron
Thank you for your comments... David B. Gustavson wrote: In document http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/ In the following, the semicolon should be a comma: In SGML-based HTML 4 certain elements were permitted to omit the end tag; with the elements that followed implying closure.

Re: Comments on WD-curie-20070307

2007-04-02 Thread Shane McCarron
Thanks for this. The working group has recently decided to prohibit un-prefixed CURIEs, thereby solving the entire problem. A new draft reflecting these changes will be available shortly. Norman Walsh wrote: A casual reading of the CURIE spec raised the following technical questions in my

Re: fieldset element at XHTML Basic 1.1

2007-03-07 Thread Shane McCarron
I suspect this is a bug - thanks for catching it. The transition from the basic forms to forms module was a late addition to XHTML Basic 1.1, and I missed this. I will submit it to the group and see if we can get it corrected quickly. Thanks! Vicente Luque Centeno wrote: In XHTML Basic

Re: [xhtml-role] Editorial (PR#9623)

2006-09-12 Thread Shane McCarron
1) While we appreciate that what you suggest might make reading easier, the way we do it is how W3C specs all do it as far as we know. We do agree about expanding the text, and will attempt to make that change over time. 2) We agree that semantic markup is a good thing. We do not have a

Re: [xhtml-role] Avoid to use normative language when its not used for this purpose (PR#9625)

2006-09-12 Thread Shane McCarron
This is not a normative requirement; it is a genuine lowercase may.

Re: XHTML Modularization 1.1: errors in XML schema drivers for XHTML Basic 1.1 and XHTML 1.1

2006-07-06 Thread Shane McCarron
XHTML Modularization does not supply such drivers. The drivers are part of the markup language standards. In this case, XHTML Basic 1.1 and XHTML 1.1 need to be updated to include the schema drivers. They will be. You need to be patient. Alexandre Alapetite wrote: Dear HTML editors,