[SCL] XML question

[james anderson]

On Wednesday, Feb 4, 2004, at 23:38 Europe/Berlin, Murray Altheim wrote:

> james anderson wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Except that unless you actually plan to use it as a scripting
> language rather than as a means of adding harvestable metadata
> to a web page, you really don't want scripting, active scripting,
> you want metadata. From your descriptions, I don't think you
> want scripting.
>
>> 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?
>
> CSS is neither, it's stylesheet information, but if you wanted to
> press that point,
i did.
>  CSS is metadata about a document intended to
> provide styling and layout information. It's not a script, and
> even industrial-strength stylesheet languages that include some
> dynamic transformation features (such as DSSSL or XSL/XSLT) are
> not considered as scripting languages, they just have some dynamic
> features as necessary to do document transformations necessary for
> styling (like adding page numbers, etc.).

ok. how much a transgression would <style type='text/scl' media='?'> be?

note also, should one want to pursue this, the discussion of specifying 
non-HTML data in the html4 spec:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#notes-specifying-data