Re: MicroXML

From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
To: "xml-dev@lists.xml.org List" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:15:37 -0800

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On Dec 15, 2010, at 23:10, James Clark wrote:

> > (a) Allowing something like <br></br>
> 
> There's legacy content that looks "wrong" if that doesn't render as two line breaks.
> 
> > (b) Allowing something like <a/>
> 
> There's legacy content that looks "wrong" if that's treated as an empty element.
> 
> And this legacy content starts with "<!DOCTYPE html>"?

We want to minimize variation between modes. More modes leads to more code and testing. Unfortunately, there's one mode-dependent parsing behavior:
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/last-html-quirk/

-- 
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/

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