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RE: What is the rule for parsing XML in a namespaceinside HTML

• To: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
• Subject: RE: What is the rule for parsing XML in a namespaceinside HTML?
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:00:56 -0400
• Cc: "XML Developers List" <xml-dev@l...>
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At 3:12 PM -0700 7/12/04, Joshua Allen wrote:

>I'm really suspicious of calls to rewrite a better, XML-aware browser.
>"Better" is always in theory; in practice you end up with tons of bugs
>and unintended consequences.  XHTML purists have had a number of years
>to prove their thesis, and all they have proved is that the "pure" way
>results in yet more complexity for web developers, no appreciable
>benefit, and new bugs.


I'm not sure what thesis you think the so-called XHTML purists are 
trying to prove, but the new bugs seem mostly to be in Microsoft 
products and the benefits are quite clear. XHTML vastly simplifies 
machine processing for all sorts of purposes. For instance, I could 
not generate RSS feeds for my web sites if they were not well-formed 
XML. Perhaps I'm not an XHTML purist (well-formedness works fine for 
me; I don't need validity)  but it is obvious that if more data were 
available in well-formed HTML, I could do more cool things with it. 
For instance, why should Amazon/Google/EBay etc. have to provide 
separate interfaces to the same data for web services and for 
browsers? Why can't one suffice for both? If they were using XHTML or 
XML, instead of HTML, one set of pages would serve double duty.
-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@m...
   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA

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