Re: [docbook-tc] inlinemediaobject in alt?

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

But why wouldn't you just use a numerical character reference for such 
glyphs?  Alt is expected to be processed into an alt attribute value, which 
could not contain a graphic glyph.  It would be necessary to provide an alt 
for the alt.  8^)

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Norman Walsh" <ndw@nwalsh.com>
To: <docbook-tc@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 6:42 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-tc] inlinemediaobject in alt?

/ "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net> was heard to say:
| I just noticed that the alt element in DocBook 5.0 contains text and/or
| inlinemediaobject.  Can someone remind me why we have inlinemediaobject 
in alt,
| given that the reference page calls it a text-only annotation?

Inlinemediaobject is basically allowed anywhere text is so that it can
be used to introduce glyphs not available in the document's encoding.