Posted by Toby A Inkster on 03/31/07 20:08

Grant Robertson wrote:

> Are you saying that marking up educational material so it is machine
> parseable is not something W3C is interested in? Are they only interested
> in general standards which can then be used for any type of material?
> Perhaps I should look to another organization such as OASIS, which seems
> to be more interested in specific standards for specific uses.

Getting it standardised by either would be an uphill battle.

If you've not already started, I'd suggest basing your standard on XHTML
1.0 Strict, and then using special education-specific values for class
attributes. Then submit your standard to microformats.org.

The aim of microformats is to create standards in specialised areas by
extending existing formats such as XHTML and Atom in backwards-compatible
ways. It's an interesting concept, and I think in the next few years it
will really take off.

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