On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 04:05:01PM +0100, Jirka Kosek wrote: > > content-type are not generic enough. We should be able to have > > control to a level like image/bitmap/png/rle-compressed, which the > > 2-level of MIME can't express. At least it would be useful to a > > stylesheet to have the "image/bitmap/png" part. > > Tell me for what this information may be useful. I talked about some > attribute which can store type of data in included external text file. > Stylesheet can (at least in theory) use this information for syntaxing > highlighting of source.
The bitmap vs. vector information could be used by the stylesheet to select the most adapted format for a given backend. But the way I put it here may not be adequate, given the example given somewhere else of EPS files, which can hold bitmaps as well as vector drawings. > > > language - it is used in classsynopsis for same purpose. > > > > This has the idea of a programming language. Such a notion may not > > exist - think of a plain-text file, or the textual representation of > > an equation, etc. > > plain-text file - no language attribute or language="plain" or > language="text" > equation - no language attribute or language="tex" or language="maple" > or language="matlab" <phrase role="not completely convinced but can't find an argument">Hm.</> -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-Software Engineer Ingénieur Logiciel-Libre Free-Software time manager Responsable du temps Informatique-Libre Debian GNU/Linux developper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>
