[Doc-SIG] The Use of Roles
fantasai
fantasai at escape.com
Tue Jun 10 18:14:04 EDT 2003
David Priest wrote:
>
> Should the reader have some idea
> of what's a valid role, or should it
> just toss anything it doesn't know
> about into the class name and let
> the writers deal with it? I can see
> arguments either way.
I'd say just toss it into the class name.
The writer could then have a default handler for
anything it doesn't specifically recognize. In
HTML, it would be <span class="unrecognized-role">,
in DocBook maybe <phrase role="unrecognized-role">.
In some other format, it could be just to ignore
the tags and handle the element's content.
~fantasai
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