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Re: What is the rule for parsing XML in a namespace insideHTML

• To: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@m...>
• Subject: Re: What is the rule for parsing XML in a namespace insideHTML?
• From: Danny Ayers <danny666@v...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 19:02:15 +0200
• Cc: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@g...>, xml-dev@l...
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Joshua Allen wrote:

>...
>I also don't understand why the religious devotion to XHTML, when it was
>only a stopgap idea between HTML and XML+XSLT+CSS support; which we
>already have.
>  
>

I don't know, XHTML only starts to look iffy when considered in terms of 
traditional browsers, as fairly straightforward XML document markup it 
seems perfectly reasonable. Even with XML+XSLT+CSS we're dependent on 
the rendering engine that gets the transformed/styled end result, still 
really in the same boat as with HTML alone.

The references to RSS are interesting,  it's rather like Len's case 
turned inside out - document islands in a data format.  But there the 
aggregator points to a completely different species of browser where the 
data should (in principle at least) be XML. But content being delivered 
in syndicated feeds has to be interpreted somehow, and the options 
currently on the table are escaped HTML or nested/namespace-qualified 
XHTML. The former is a pretty awful approach when the latter is 
available at minimal extra cost (probably less cost, if you factor in 
the ambiguity on how material should be extracted, double-unescaping and 
so on). But when it comes to displaying the content, whichever way it 
comes, existing HTML rendering engines still pretty much have the monopoly.

Cheers,
Danny.

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