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At 12:05 AM 9/17/99 -0400, Tyler Baker wrote: > >So with respect to XHTML, again I beg the question, why do we need three HTML >specs when most HTML parsers are some hack job that try and handle >everything that >can possibly be thrown at it?. When writing one of these very forgiving >parsers, >falling back on some DTD for validation will get you absolutely nothing. For current HTML parsers, you need exactly *zero* namespaces. They aren't aware of them. They ignore them. (The same could be said for DTDs on the rendering side of things, though authoring is greatly aided by their inclusion). There is no learning curve in regards to namespaces for the developer of XHTML documents that will be served on today's Internet as text/html. Zero. None. Since XHTML is also XML, namespaces may be used there, which is why we currently have: >So even though in principle 3 XHTML namespaces might make more sense than having just one Ann --- Author of Effective Web Design: Master the Essentials Coming in September --- Mastering XML Founder, WebGeek Communications http://www.webgeek.com Vice President-Finance, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org Director, HWG Online Education http://www.hwg.org/services/classes 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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