RE: [cgmo-webcgm] Issue CL-d6: 2.3.4 content attribute

At 04:33 PM 5/2/2006 -0700, Cruikshank, David W wrote:

Confirm your agreement with Ben's
assessment of this issue.

Benoit's assessment is good.  I embed one comment below...

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-----Original Message-----

From: Benoit Bezaire
[mailto:]

Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 7:57 AM

To: CGM Open WebCGM TC

Subject: [cgmo-webcgm] Issue CL-d6: 2.3.4 content attribute

CL wrote:

"Issue CL-d6: [[[2.3.4 WebCGM defined group properties content -
an

attribute of the 'para' and 'subpara' APS, that can give a
reasonable

basis for searching in the case of badly structured text within
WebCGM

instances.]]]

Sounds like alt text, what if this is very different to the actual
text?

Risk of it being outdated when the CGM is revised. what does 'badly

structured' mean here? "

  

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Unlike alt text, WebCGM user agents do not display the content of

'content' if the graphical primitives cannot be displayed. It's 
only

purpose is to facilitate documentation/searching operations.

As for the 'very different to the actual text' question, would could
add

some guidelines similar to the HTML alt text guidelines:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/objects.html#alternate-text

And definitely put an emphasis on the fact that authors should
update

the 'content' attribute if the graphical primitives of the APS are

modified. 

As I said about CL-d5, I believe we should be careful about saying too
much on para, subpara, and content until we know exactly what future
requirements these might need to serve.  From my CL-d5
reply...

[[[ 

Finally, we don't need to say more unless pressed further. But we
need to keep in mind that we purposely underspecified these things in
1.0, to reserve our options for future standardization (search, flow
text, etc). We thought that would happen in a 2.0, but put it aside again
(remember flow-text at Cologne?) in order to expedite completion of
DOM/XCF -- the highest priority requirements. 
]]]

As for 'badly structured', simply
provide an example.

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 Benoit  
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