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Not to pick nits, but the August 29 statement just observed a correlation; when I first read it, I didn't take it to be providing an actual reason for the decision. The "as direct a mapping as possible" language does indeed give insight into the decision to go with a one-to-one DTD/NS mapping, though I think that the confusion reigning about the purpose of NSs puts the rationale on shaky foundations not of the WG's making. Back to lurking, Eve At 12:44 PM 9/16/99 -0400, Ann Navarro wrote: >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 apparently nobody wanted to hear it. > >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...) 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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