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HTML != XML (was Re: [ANN] Kludgey workarounds for xt)

• From: David Megginson <david@m...>
• To: "XML Developers' List" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 06:17:22 -0400

Chris Maden writes:

 > Support for pre-XML HTML was explicitly considered and rejected by
 > the Working Group.

Absolutely correct.

Since HTML <= 4.0 is *not* XML, it is best to treat it as an output
format, like PDF, TeX, RDF, Postscript, etc. -- in other words, first
produce your XML, then run it through a filter (such as a SAX-based
app) that does a down-translation to HTML syntax.  If the XML document
contains the same element types as the HTML, the translation will be
very simple.


All the best,


David

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