We still haven't decided the base syntax. To be able to use it within other vocabularies and without having any problems with agents, inline HumanML is out of...
Manos Batsis
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Mar 1, 2001 10:51 am
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... From: "Manos Batsis" <m.batsis@...> To: <humanmarkup@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 10:52 AM Subject: [humanmarkup] Syntax ... The...
Ian Tindale
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Mar 1, 2001 12:32 pm
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... Both examples parsed well on SiRPAC [1], but I prefer Ian's representation as it seems to fit more closely what we are trying to do. Still, there are some...
Sean B. Palmer
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Mar 1, 2001 1:45 pm
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Thank you Sean. I see you haven't commented on the css thingie... You where the only one I expected comments from on this? Best regards, Manos ... From: Sean...
Manos Batsis
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Mar 1, 2001 1:52 pm
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... Just getting around to it! Here you go:- ... Hmm, I'm not sure that you can build proprietery styling extensions onto CSS3, even though it is...
Sean B. Palmer
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Mar 1, 2001 2:17 pm
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<Sean> But CSS transformations? You'd have to have an HuML file with all the data, and then use XSLT to convert that into CSS (XSLT can output plain text)....
Manos Batsis
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Mar 1, 2001 2:26 pm
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... Yes; or the users wishes if s/he overrides it. ... I think I see what you mean now... it'd be a new stylesheet language, not CSS, so you have to have...
Sean B. Palmer
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Mar 1, 2001 2:38 pm
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<Sean> ... I think I see what you mean now... it'd be a new stylesheet language, not CSS, so you have to have "HuMLS". I suppose that a HuMLS file would be...
Manos Batsis
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Mar 1, 2001 2:50 pm
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That is the idea. The concrete representation varies by rendering language. That is why we can't tie it to CSS. It would put the other languages out of...
Bullard, Claude L (Len)
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Mar 1, 2001 4:02 pm
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Actually, is what we're doing here not actually a markup language at all, but is in fact almost entirely a style syntax? Or am I confused? -- Cheers, Ian...
Ian Tindale
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Mar 1, 2001 4:23 pm
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The problem is, if it is entirely a style syntax it will not be usuable but on exactly one style engine. Human communication occurs in many channels....
Bullard, Claude L (Len)
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Mar 1, 2001 4:34 pm
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<len> ... </len> Certainly this is so. It isn't that humanmarkup is inventing or creating new communications theories--we aren't. However, what we are doing...
Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
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Mar 1, 2001 5:28 pm
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We might eventually have established stylistic standards for emotions...For example, <happy> may directly correspond to a specific textual representation such...
Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
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Mar 1, 2001 7:00 pm
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I'll try to explain the XSLT approach as best as I can in an abbreviated explanation without too much code. So I am taking some shortcuts to save time (need...
Bullard, Claude L (Len)
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Mar 1, 2001 7:34 pm
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... No: XHTML m12n elements are defined as having no rendering semantics whatsoever:- [...] this document makes no requirements on the formatting model...
Sean B. Palmer
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Mar 1, 2001 9:17 pm
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Here is my last message with associated HuML:- <assertion>No: <technicality>XHTML m12n elements are defined as having no rendering semantics...
Sean B. Palmer
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Mar 1, 2001 9:24 pm
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<sean> Attaching "standard" presentations to semantic markup is highly inaccessible... what if I associate happiness with the color blue, but some "rule" says...
Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
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Mar 1, 2001 9:54 pm
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... Ah, this is the place where I am getting confused - in the terminology again. When you use the term standard, I think of an ISO specifiction pertaining to...
Sean B. Palmer
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Mar 2, 2001 1:33 am
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<sean> just mean a list of "idea" as to how HuML should be styled, then just write a Style Sheet and say "this is what we use, and we hope others will like it...
Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
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Mar 2, 2001 2:16 am
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... Yes, that's a good idea. It should be based on current implementations and cultural understandings of what HuML represents, e.g. what people visualize as...
Sean B. Palmer
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Mar 2, 2001 3:58 am
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I'm forwarding the following posting from www-style@... I have to agree with Bert's points. ... From: Bert Bos [mailto:bert@...] Sent: Thursday, March...
Manos Batsis
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Mar 2, 2001 8:00 am
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<Sean> ... Anger is "red" to most people. In aural terms it could be loud and strong; equivalent multimedia based mappings are *essential*. </Sean> <Ranjeeth> ...
Manos Batsis
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Mar 2, 2001 8:18 am
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Found it at: http://xml.com/pub/a/coverpage/newspage.html#ni2001-02-28-a witch of course has a link to for reference to: ...
Manos Batsis
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Mar 2, 2001 11:44 am
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Bert's dead wrong. CSS is a bad idea for that level of representation. This is one metalevel too low for the emotional markup. Len ...
Bullard, Claude L (Len)
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Mar 2, 2001 2:37 pm
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What level of representation do you really think an application running on a cell phone or even PDA actually needs? OR, what level of metadata can such a...
Manos Batsis
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Mar 2, 2001 2:53 pm
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Maybe we should start writing some markup using something like the Dublin Core RDF (even if we don't use it at the end, it will help us move on), but I don't...
Manos Batsis
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Mar 2, 2001 3:16 pm
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Because by the time the PDA sees it, it wants it in a rendering language, not an abstract content model. I don't argue that CSS can't do what RDF does....
Bullard, Claude L (Len)
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Mar 2, 2001 3:22 pm
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... A parser able to read css will be able to read that ... I never argued with that. I only claimed HuML css like rules could be used by an application to...
Manos Batsis
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Mar 2, 2001 3:35 pm
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XML.COM has an article on RDDL. Essentially it is a XLink set in XHTML telling one where all the resources needed to process a namespace reference are. In...
Bullard, Claude L (Len)
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Mar 2, 2001 3:35 pm
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Yes. That it can do. A CSS parser can read that but what will it do with it? We chose the XML syntax coming out of the gate because there are lots of tools...