Re: format for body of annotations

Matthew Wilson <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jan 2003 21:31:05 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.org.w3c.annotation
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At 15:19 23/01/03 -0600, Doug Daniels wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I'm trying to figure out how to format the body of annotations for
>annozilla, and there  doesn't seem to be a standard in place.  Right now,
>Amaya 7.1 is creating annotation bodies that look like:
>
>  <html>
>    <head>
>      <title>Annotation of whatever</title>
>    </head>
>    <body>
>      <p>some body text goes here</p>
>    </body>
>  </html>
>
>
>this sort of annotation 1) has no doctype and 2) has no namespace.  as
>such, when annotest.w3.org serves this document up with mimetype
>"application/xhtml+xml", poor mozilla becomes utterly confused.  seeing a
>standards-compliant mimetype, it tries to render in standards compliance
>mode.  however, without a namespace and/or doctype, there's no styling
>info, and the whole process gets hosed.
>
>so, I suggest that we have our clients, especially amaya,  put a namespace
>and/or doctype in the body html.

A doctype would presumably cause havoc when the annotation body is posted 
along with the annotation information.

Perhaps if the annotation server used a MIME type of 'text/html' ?

Matthew