[uf-new] Re: hAudio issue: position

[Andy Mabbett]

On Tue, January 15, 2008 16:18, Manu Sporny wrote:

> POSITION is a loose descriptor of where the piece fits in if it is part
> of a collection of some kind. It is most useful when the other pieces are
> not listed on the same page.
>
> Position can be:

> 1. The position of the track on a CD.
> 2. Podcast # of the recording.
> 3. The position on a top-10 list.
> 4. The physical position on a CD set of an Operatic piece.
> 5. The side and track # of an LP (ie: A1, B2)
> 6. Specified in TABLE elements.
> 7. Can be specified out-of-sequence.

Isn't it overloading, to put so many meanings onto one attribute?

> I don't think we avoided the problem when putting position in there...
> it takes on the challenges of positional identifiers for audio recordings.
> If we take position out of the hAudio spec, we lose support
> for all of the use cases listed above.

I don't think anyone wants to not support those use-cases; but to do so in
a way which encourages people to drop good, semantic mark-up and use bad,
non-semantic mark-up isn't supportable.

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Andy Mabbett
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