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David Hunter wrote: >The *new* part is somehow managing to combine XHTML documents >with other XML documents. This is the part that could be >considered standardization in advance of implementation. So >if people say <overstatement?>"let's just say the XHTML >namespace is 'blah', do what you want with the grammar and >we'll standardize it later [maybe]"</overstatement?>, that >seems completely backwards to me. And actually starts us *sigh* Here we go again: But we are not talking about wild wild west where anything goes. We already have the following specs in various states which places, imho, sufficient level of constraints in the past and in the future to guide the lost and to punish the rebels. HTML 4.0 specification http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/ XHTML 1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ XHTML 1.1 - Module-based XHTML http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11 Modularization of XHTML http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization Building XHTML Modules http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-building <rant> The primary nemesis of standardization is time. Time is also the key ingredient of warfare; anyone engaged in any competitive process must pay close attention to time. So it is not surprising that some of us wants to take seemingly obvious and safe shortcuts. I am as frustrated as a dirt covered sergent in the middle of a battlefield who has just been told that he will have to wait for the bullets because the manufacturers have standards to consider for field inter-operability. Nuts! Get me some standard stones! </rant> Best, Don Park - mailto:donpark@d... Docuverse - http://www.docuverse.com 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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