This means that XHTML 2 contents can be used as follows? <content type="xhtml"> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xhtml2/";> <!-- Contents XHTML 2.0 --> </div> </content>
<content type="application/xhtml+xml"> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xhtml2/";> <!-- Contents XHTML 2.0 --> </div> </content> By the way, are they the same? Franklin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James M Snell Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 03:20 To: Mark Nottingham Cc: Tse Shing Chi ((Franklin/Whale)); atom-syntax@imc.org Subject: Re: Forward Compatibility Mark Nottingham wrote: > [snip] > ...new metadata can be added using extensions, rather than by versioning Atom. It's also possible for new RFC's to update the current Atom namespace in a backwards compatible way without deprecating/obsoleting RFC4287. >> However, XHTML 2.0 will have a new namespace >> "http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xhtml2/";, and the chance of having more >> future versions of XHTML cannot be eliminated. Have Atom prepared for >> this? > > This was intentional; if we allowed future, non-backwards compatible > versions of HTML to appear in the same places that XHTML1 content is > allowed, processors wouldn't know what to do with it unless they > understood XHTML2. Tying the allowed content to a specific version of > XHTML promotes interoperability. > That said, Atom can currently carry XHTML2 by specifying the media type and properly declaring the namespace. - James
