[SCL] XML question

[james anderson]

On Wednesday, Feb 4, 2004, at 18:18 Europe/Berlin, Pat Hayes wrote:

>>> 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.
>
hmm, this is getting to me weeks later. i hope you also saw m.altheim's 
followup
(http://philebus.tamu.edu/pipermail/scl/2004-January/000684.html)
both as to whether SCL really is a script and as to how to type it if 
it is a script.
i'm not as certain as he appeared to be that a script element has a 
clear purpose which would preclude metadata content, but i don't write 
those specs. for example, is css a script or is it metadata?
>
>>  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
>>
>> ...
>> (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?
>

sorry. i didn't think when i dragged it. try

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/scripts.html

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