RE: [cgmo-webcgm] Issue CL-d6: 2.3.4 content attribute

["Cruikshank, David W" <david.w.cruikshank@boeing.com>]

Confirm your agreement with Ben's assessment of this issue.

Thx...dave 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Benoit Bezaire [mailto:benoit@itedo.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 7:57 AM
To: CGM Open WebCGM TC
Subject: [cgmo-webcgm] Issue CL-d6: 2.3.4 content attribute

CL wrote:
"Issue CL-d6: [[[2.3.4 WebCGM defined group properties content - an
attribute of the 'para' and 'subpara' APS, that can give a reasonable
basis for searching in the case of badly structured text within WebCGM
instances.]]]

Sounds like alt text, what if this is very different to the actual text?
Risk of it being outdated when the CGM is revised. what does 'badly
structured' mean here? "
  
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Unlike alt text, WebCGM user agents do not display the content of
'content' if the graphical primitives cannot be displayed. It's only
purpose is to facilitate documentation/searching operations.

As for the 'very different to the actual text' question, would could add
some guidelines similar to the HTML alt text guidelines:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/objects.html#alternate-text
And definitely put an emphasis on the fact that authors should update
the 'content' attribute if the graphical primitives of the APS are
modified. 

As for 'badly structured', simply provide an example.

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 Benoit   mailto:benoit@itedo.com

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