On 9/9/05, Rimantas Liubertas <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think you know what I'm talking about. The information is not for
> humans... obviously. Accessibility isn't just about people. The extra
> information is for, as I already stated, computing devices that parse the
> data. In XML, you really do have that much information.... every single item
> is surrounded by unique tags that indicate exactly what it is.
If information is not going to be used by humans at the end of the
road - ditch it.
> Let me say it again for the reading impaired: in XML, every single
> block-level item is surrounded by unique tags that indicate exactly what it
> is.
XML gives you means to do that, but that does not imply that "every
single block-level item"
is marked up. And why block level items are so special? I can wrap-up
in the tags whatever I want to. Or I can have whole article stuffed
into single <something>...</something>
> And the whole point of X-HTML is to make HTML more like XML.
XHTML _is_ XML... talk XML looking like HTML.
> So that when
> you send an HTML document to a non-human reader, one that can't understand
> text, it can still tell what each element is supposed to be, by how you
> classified and titled and id'ed it.
How is it going to understand titles and id's if it does not understand text?
It is good to have titles and ids if they will be used for something
meaningful - search,
tagging, transformations etc.
> Maybe thinking from the computing end is easier for me because I'm an
> electrical engineer. Just think of it this way... computer's don't know
> english.
So they know nothing, what given tag means. And computers only process
information, the
ultimate consumer is a human being
Regards,
Rimantas
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