Re: More comments on WOFF metadata

On Wednesday, November 24, 2010, 10:24:06 PM, Eric wrote:

EM> On 11/24/2010 12:43 PM, Tal Leming wrote:

>> Would adding these requirements [namespace] make existing files invalid?

EM> Wrt. the current schema, yes.


>>>> 2.1 On the localizability side, I would have expected that an element like<description>  would allow multiple<text>  elements, each with different lang attributes.
>> This is already in the spec.

EM> The schema says:

EM>          <optional>
EM>            <element name="description">
EM>              <ref name="text"/>
EM>            </element>
EM>          </optional>

EM> i.e. a single description. The proposal is to allow multiple 
EM> descriptions, for different locales.

Oh! My bad. The RNG I wrote does not match the spec here. I will fix this.

>>>> 5. Licenses are not just translations of a text in different languages, they are also adaptations to local laws. I think this implies that the url and id attributes should instead be on the various<text>  elements inside<license>.
>> Hm. The URL that the license element is directing the user to could handle this, no?

EM> Since there is currently a single license URL, it would means that this
EM> URL would have to cover all the locales (the URL may use a scheme that
EM> does not have a machinery for locales). The proposal is to allow per 
EM> locale URLs.

Yes, I agree that would be valuable.






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