> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Walsh [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 2011 August 30 15:08
> To: Grosso, Paul
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: markup for mediaobject parameters
>
> "Grosso, Paul" <[email protected]> writes:
> > By the way, both videodata and audiodata have a @format
> > attribute whose declared value is an enumerated list
> > consisting of graphic types. This is pretty useless,
> > since video and audio objects are not graphics.
>
> In what version of DocBook?
In 4.x. (There are users still using that version.)
> In 5.0, it's just text:
>
> [
> db:refpurpose [ "Specifies the format of the data" ]
> ]
> attribute format { text }?,
That's good.
>
> > Or we could just drop the @format attribute and plan
> > to use the (proposed) general param mechanism which is
> > what I have to do at present anyway.
>
> Well, if your stylesheet can copy the format attribute to the HTML
> param, I think I prefer that for the common stuff, but I won't fuss
> too much.
I agree, I'd rather use the format attribute for what it appears
to have been designed for. So we can do that in 5.x but not in 4.x.
>
> Could I persuade you to make a concrete proposal for the changes that
> you'd like to see?
Sure I'd be willing to do that, but probably not until the late
September
time frame. I gather you're only interested in a 5.x solution which
means I'll probably still have to invent my own 4.x solution (which is
pretty much what I've outlined already).
paul
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