Re: WOFF and extended metadata

Liam,

Are you saying you support, in principle, the idea of a vast and complex raw XML document (ok, maybe without the <?xml ... ?>) as the value of a key-value pair?

- L

On 19 Jun 2010, at 23:19, Liam R E Quin wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 22:37 +0100, Laurence Penney wrote:
>> Could you point to where these restrictions are listed? If you're
>> talking about Ruby markup (or any angle-bracket markup), then I'm not
>> sure why such markup would not be encoded with &lt; and &gt; and
>> quotes as entities - whether <bar>text</bar> or <foo bar="text"/>
> 
> I'll reply just in case you're seriously suggesting such an ugly
> hack :-)
> 
> It's not a good idea because you can't then process the markup
> with XSLT or XQuery, or edit it with an XML-aware editor, or mark
> the name and value as being in separate languages, or use ITS to
> mark a particular name or value os "do not translate".
> 
>  <item>
>    <name>Socks</name>
>    <value>black</value>
>  </item>
> 
> is preferred over
>  <item name="Socks" value="black" />
> 
> HTML and RSS are not good examples to follow in this regard...
> 
> Liam
> 
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