[cc-metadata] a rel=meta for license embedding ?
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen at iki.fi
Sat Dec 31 02:05:56 EST 2005
On Dec 31, 2005, at 00:52, Carol Spears wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 12:04:15AM +0200, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>> I can't recall what the normative text says about HTML, but as far as
>> XHTML goes, the XML spec allows XML Processors not to pass comments
>> to the application. Since comments are not safe for software
>> consumption, putting metadata in comments is a bad idea.
>>
> can you expand on this?
"They [comments] are not part of the document's character data; an
XML processor MAY, but need not, make it possible for an application
to retrieve the text of comments."
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-comments
Clearly, the purpose of XML comments is to be readable by humans who
view the source of an XML document. Comments are not supposed to have
significance for software processing.
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Henri Sivonen
hsivonen at iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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