Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Concrete proposal for #480954: Extend textobjecttoinsertexternal files

[ydirson@alcove.fr]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 06:43:07PM +0100, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> Norman Walsh wrote:
> 
> > | For some application it may be useful to have also format or type
> > | attribute here. One can say that format of file is java or text/java and
> > | stylesheet can apply syntax-highlighting on the file.
> > 
> > Hmm, but what should we call that attribute?
> 
> I see three candidates:
> 
> format - this is used for almost same purpose for graphics, but cann't
> be used now, because format isn't CDATA it is predefined as a list of
> image format identifiers

The "format" attribute is used to specify a notation.  Here it would
be "linespecific" again, modulo charset information.


> type - it is used in several markup languages to hold MIME type of data.
> However MIME approach is not currently  used in DocBook, so this change
> would be quite inconsistent with a rest of DocBook.

MIME denomination is "content-type", not "type".  But IMHO MIME
content-type are not generic enough.  We should be able to have
control to a level like image/bitmap/png/rle-compressed, which the
2-level of MIME can't express.  At least it would be useful to a
stylesheet to have the "image/bitmap/png" part.


> language - it is used in classsynopsis for same purpose. 

This has the idea of a programming language.  Such a notion may not
exist - think of a plain-text file, or the textual representation of
an equation, etc.

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