On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Kristof Zelechovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> I am not opposing local metadata; I have already explained you can use the > SCRIPT element for the purpose. I only say that metadata should not be > inside content they describe in order to avoid circularity. This is a > philosophical objection, not a technical one. > Chris > Honestly, Kristof, I think it's simple to assume that the metadata semantics is in a different 'stream' that the main document, and thus you don't have recursive metadata about metadata. Imagine for a moment that CSS had an XML syntax (::shudder::). We wouldn't assume that the styling information applies to stuff within the <css> element, even if a selector *would* naively match an element there. Styling information doesn't style itself by useful definition, and metadata doesn't impart semantics to itself. Any occurence of accidental self-reference is assumed to be just that - an accident - and discarded as spurious. In a real-world example, no existing parser that recognizes @rel=license assumes that you are licensing the actual text/picture within the license. It's assumed to apply to everything in the document *except* for the license data itself. ~TJ
