On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 10:47:22 +0200, Florian Bösch <[email protected]> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Michael[tm] Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
There is no conceivable conformance checker that's going to allow the
use of completely arbitrary tag names. It doesn't matter what formalism
it uses.
To allow custom tag names and still be able to check the conformance of
normal tag names, the only possibility is to limit the custom tag names
to some recognized prefix -- e.g., x-fancyButton or whatever.
<x:fancy-button>
Yes, XML has a way to make this work. But the people who don't get
namespaces (a huge proportion of those publishing content or build the
content content generation tools that were used in the last decade *on the
public web*) have convinced us* that this is not an option for HTML.
On the other hand, a log of programming languages manage to run a compiler
that recognises arbitrary elements based on a grammar and an "import"
declaration of some kind.
In other words, they use a simplistic namespace mechanism (without the
collision-control).
*For some definition of us. For those who have worked happily with
namespaces over the last decade, writing HTML5 as XHTML is a reasonable
option, if the browsers don't scrap their XML capability.
cheers
Chaals
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