[SCL] XML question

Wed Feb 4 11:18:49 CST 2004

>On Friday, Jan 23, 2004, at 21:14 Europe/Berlin, pat hayes wrote:
>
>>>...
>>>(maybe I'm not understanding you correctly here)
>>>
>>>>>, you (as you say) begin to rely on
>>>>>XML authoring tools to escape the contents. This can be a real
>>>>>difficulty for authoring, but it certainly is the solution. Now,
>>>>>if XCL is an XML markup language in its own right, you'd just put
>>>>>the XCL into the document as XML markup, using XML Namespaces.
>>>>
>>>>Right. The reason for the third goal is to be able to link the 
>>>>SCL to HTML anchors; but like I say, this is a private 
>>>>hobbyhorse. The first two are more important.
>>>
>>>There's probably better ways to do this, using the XCL syntax
>>>instead. Do you mean link the HTML-to-SCL, or SCL-to-HTML?
>>
>>I want to be able to use SCL (in some syntactic form) as markup 
>>inside HTML in such a way that it is clearly linked to some 
>>particular part of the HTML but is invisible to any browser, ie 
>>does not appear visibly on the Web page. Rather in the way that 
>>href links are invisible, if you take my meaning.
>
>it sounds a lot like it should be treated as a scripting language.

Yes, excellent suggestion. Thanks for making it.

Pat Hayes

>  which means then either appears in a script element, which allows 
>for the otherwise-markup-syntax, or appears in attributes, with 
>escaping as required.
>
>something like
>
><html>
>  <head>
>    <script>
>   here is some text with < & > .
>    </script>
>    </head>
>  <body>
>   <span style="font-weight: bold; color: red"> some red text before&gt;</span>
>   <script>
>     here is some more text with < & > .
>    </script>
>   <span style="color: blue">&lt; &amp; some blue text after.</span>
>   </body>
>  </html>
>
>(see file:///Documents/Standards/XML/html4/interact/scripts.html)

Er...I cant see that, as I think its a local file. Did you mean to 
insert a URL there?

>
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