Shane P. McCarron wrote:

> John Cowan wrote:
> > 3) "123456" can't be the value of an attribute of type ID in a
> > *valid* XML document: true. However, plenty of documents are not
> > valid: in particular, any document without a DTD is not valid,
> > and there is nothing wrong with having a DTD without expecting or
> > requiring validity.
> >
> I guess... however, note that XHTML family documents are REQUIRED
> to be valid. That was the IPTC's goal when they started this
> thing. Not sure if it is still their goal... defining a syntax
> that breaks the rules would seem misguided to me.

Which end of the hyperlink are we discussing? The use, within a News
story, of a specified concept from a specified taxonomy, or the
description of this concept on some Web page?

The IPTC Standards (NewsML-G2, SportsML-G2, EventsML-G2, etc) are not
(X)HTML-based. The Web page is, of course, (X)HTML.

The issue, as I understand it, is not what is legal within the News
story, but rather what is legal within the Web page.

Misha Wolf
News Standards Manager, Reuters, http://www.reuters.com/
Vice Chair, News Architecture WP, IPTC, http://www.iptc.org/

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