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From: Ann Navarro <ann@w...> >At 09:16 AM 9/16/99 -0700, Walter Underwood wrote: >>At 04:41 PM 9/15/99 -0400, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: >>> >>> [...] the HTML 4.0 spec defined three, and XHTML was required to be >>>as direct a mapping from HTML 4.0 to XML as possible. >> >>This is a rationale. Including this with the recent draft >>would have saved us all a lot of e-mail traffic. > >This was said way back at the beginning (August 29) > >http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/xml-dev-Aug-1999/0370.html > >Quoting myself "No, we've not confused them. We happen to have three >'flavors' of XHTML 1.0 >(the first deliverable from the XHTML project, not the end sum of our >work), that essentially map to the three flavors of HTML 4.0." But HTML 4.0 does not define three namespaces. The term namespace or its concept is never even used in it, that I can see. It specifies three DTDs, but since a schema is not a namespace, so what? T.B-L's argument is not that HTML 4 has three namespaces, but that HTML 4 has three DTDs, and so does is not an adequate rationale. In any case, since HTML 4.0 was finished before the namespace spec (1997-12-18 v. 1999-01-14) , how could it specify three namespaces? Does the HTML WG have some spirit guide :-) It seems clear that the HTML team have some mental concept of namespaces which exists independently of what the W3C specification actually allows. If a W3C specs can be utterly overturned in such a way, what is their value? Rick Jelliffe xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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