[sc34wg3] Almost arbitrary markup in resourceData

[Kal Ahmed]

My feeling is that resourceData should allow only elements from
namespaces other than the XTM namespace(s).

Cheers,

Kal

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 19:07, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> I'm working on extending the RELAX-NG schema for XTM 1.1 to support
> arbitrary markup in <resourceData> and <baseNameString/> and ran into
> some questions.
> 
> The first is: do we want to allow XTM elements to appear inside these
> elements? That is, is
> 
>   <resourceData>XTM is an <topicRef xlink:href="#XML"/>-based markup
>   language.</resourceData>
> 
> OK? If so, what does it mean? Is it OK for <scope> to appear here? For
> <topicMap/>? For <resourceData>?
> 
> And what about this
> 
>   <resourceData>XTM is <em>really</em> cool.</resourceData>
> 
> is that OK? (This is a trick question: the XTM namespace is the
> default namespace, so 'em' will be posing as an XTM element here,
> since it will be in the XTM namespace.)
> 
> This is clearly OK, however:
> 
>   <resourceData>XTM is <xhtml:em>really</xhtml:em>
>   cool.</resourceData>
> 
> I can easily write the RELAX-NG rules for this, whatever we decide,
> but I think we need to consider this carefully so that we don't trip
> ourselves (and others) up.
-- 
Kal Ahmed <kal@techquila.com>
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