This is an archived snapshot of W3C's public bugzilla bug tracker, decommissioned in April 2019. Please see the home page for more details.

Bug 2922 - The word "tag" is not appropriate
Summary: The word "tag" is not appropriate
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: ITS
Classification: Unclassified
Component: ITS tagset (show other bugs)
Version: WorkingDraft
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Felix Sasaki
QA Contact: Felix Sasaki
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2006-02-23 08:49 UTC by Eric van der Vlist
Modified: 2006-07-24 09:46 UTC (History)
0 users

See Also:


Attachments

Description Eric van der Vlist 2006-02-23 08:49:38 UTC
I was not aware of your work in this field before and I find that this is a very
good and solid idea.

The thing I don't like that much is its name!

As a trainer and writer, I spend my time explaining that XML is about trees and
not about tags, that tags are just syntactic sugar to mark the beginning and the
end of elements and that reasoning in term of tags is one of the main cause for
the most frequent errors.

I am thus somewhat disapointed to see a XML vocabulary with the word "tag" in
its name!

Kind regards,

Eric
Comment 1 Felix Sasaki 2006-02-23 13:43:26 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> I was not aware of your work in this field before and I find that this is a very
> good and solid idea.
> 
> The thing I don't like that much is its name!
> 
> As a trainer and writer, I spend my time explaining that XML is about trees and
> not about tags, that tags are just syntactic sugar to mark the beginning and the
> end of elements and that reasoning in term of tags is one of the main cause for
> the most frequent errors.
> 
> I am thus somewhat disapointed to see a XML vocabulary with the word "tag" in
> its name!
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Eric

Thank you for the feedback (the positive and the other ;) !
It is quite important for the working group to produce something which is called
a "tag set", since we have been chartered to do this, see
http://www.w3.org/2004/11/i18n-recharter/its-charter . Of course the working
draft encompasses much more than tags (and mostly attributes ...), but a) we
don't want to spend our time to change the charter, but rather reach last call
fast, working on technical issues, and b) for many users (e.g. content authors),
having a set of fixed names for elements / attributes is enough; they will not
use selection mechanisms at all. So: yes, you are right, and no, we can't change
this.

Comment 2 Christian Lieske 2006-02-27 08:57:18 UTC
We discussed alternatives in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-
its/2005OctDec/0086
Comment 3 Felix Sasaki 2006-07-24 09:46:35 UTC
Closed, no further action necessary.