requirement

[tony kerz]

before i pose the following question i want to provide kudos for the 
myfaces team for their tremendous effort in implementing to the spec 
(and then some) and getting the project elevated to an apache top level.

please don't take my comments as criticism, just looking for some rationale:
is the requirement to wrap non-jsf related html or jsp tags in 
<f:verbatim> elements specified in the JSF spec or is it's strict usage 
open to interpretation?

obviously the requirement is a chore for developers and makes resultant 
pages more cluttered and difficult to read.

are there any plans to eliminate this requirement or is strict usage the 
way that the myfaces team interprets the spec?

it's kind of confusing when books like JSF in Action show unadorned html 
within an <f:view> parent and this style isn't supported in myfaces...