[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: why distinctions within XHTML?
>Somebody did the basic math in a comment: three variants of XHTML will >very quickly add an order of magnitude to the complexity of the systems >built with it. That's a deterrent to the use of XHTML, and discards the >simplification that's long been at the core of the XML movement. > Does not the 'X' in XHTML pretty much mean that technically there should be no 'non-strict' version? I mean if its HTML, its HTML. But, if its XML, then it needs to be well formed XML. I think that its going a little too far in the direction of backwards compatability to do anything else. All parsers out there now would reject non-strict HTML as not well formed anyway, right? I'm assuming that non-strict (or traditional, or classic or whatever it is :-) means you don't need a </p> for every <p> and so on, right? So just making it really have to be well formed XML (which would avoid changing all the parsers in the world just to deal with this) would get rid of one of the DTDs right off the back, wouldn't it? Maybe this was a totally ignorant statement (I've been off writing real code and haven't been following this debate) or maybe its been said 20 times already and sorry if so, but it makes perfect sense to me that there should be no XHTML which is not really XML. That still leaves the issues of how to progress standards, but it would remove one big hair ball from our respective gullets :-) ---------------------------------------- Dean Roddey Software Weenie IBM Center for Java Technology - Silicon Valley roddey@u... 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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