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Re: [Fwd: ATTN: Please comment on XHTML (before it's too late)]

• From: Ann Navarro <ann@w...>
• To: "Dave Winer" <dave@u...>, "xml-dev" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 14:00:14 -0400

At 10:54 AM 8/29/99 -0700, Dave Winer wrote:
>As the developer of web content management software, and the webmaster for
>over a dozen active websites, here's what I think XHTML should be.
>
>1. A tightening up of HTML. Eliminate the anomalies, like <li>, <img>, <p>
>that in HTML can appear without balancing </li>, </img>, </p> tags. XHTML
>pages should be well-formed XML, with mods to HTML to bring it into
>well-formedness.
>
>That's it. Nothing more


And that's exactly the intention of XHTML 1.0.

Ann

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