Hi Jan
Em 16/12/2016 15:41, Jan Holesovsky escreveu: > Hi, > > khagaroth píše v Pá 16. 12. 2016 v 17:51 +0100: > >>> I hope you meant HTML 5, because XHTML is a dead end (and good riddance). >> html does not have markup for some of the semantics that we have (and need) >>> in the help files (like <section> or <embed> to name few) >>> >> Both <section> and <embed> are part of HTML 5 and there is a good chance >> the other things are as well. > They are, but they mean a completely different thing than what they mean > in XHP ;-) > > <embed> in XHP is more like <object name="foo" type="text/html" > data="foo.inc"></object>. > > Similarly <section> is more like a <div> with some associated css. > > Again - I'm talking semantics; <object> is a general thing, and has no > semantics by itself, similarly <div>. We'd lose this by converting to a > plain HTML. > > All the best, > Kendy > > One thing I'd like to add for evaluation of using XML for the help contents in browsers is that, in my experience: * XSLT (XML style sheets), XPath and XQuery are another technologies to master. * An error in a XSLT statement and one get a blank page or a message with very little indications (Firefox) * XSLT seems to be an aging technology. Is the industry betting in this technology for the future? * Rendering XML+XSLT is browser-dependent and is not publicly/widely tested by W3C. We may be forced to test the results into a wide set of browsers. Regards -- Olivier Hallot LIbreOffice Documentation Coordinator Comunidade LibreOffice Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - Local Time: UTC-02:00 http://tdf.io/joinus -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted