On Jun 2, 2006, at 17:28, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
Quoting White Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
So WHATWG doesn't really care about DTDs. (There are two people
involved with that though for validating.)
Are you referring to fantasai and me? I am not doing anything with
DTDs. AFAIK, fantasai isn't working on DTDs, either, currently.
There have been forward-looking statements about DTD or XSD versions
of the schema generated from the RELAX NG master. Considering the
level of RELAX NG-specific features used in the schema, I'd expect
Trang-generated DTDs and XSDs to be rather imprecise. Moreover,
personally, I don't like the idea of generating DTDs, because it
would encourage people to use doctypes and would give them a false
sense of security (after validation against an imprecise DTD).
it is better to know in advance whether normative DTD is required
or not
It's not.
More precisely, (X)HTML5 will not have a normative schema of any
kind. The English prose is normative. Furthermore, letting schemas
affect the design of the language doesn't go down well with Hixie.
(Yes, I tried after all. :-)
That said, considering my sunk cost in contributing to the RELAX NG
schema, I'd appreciate it if the language did not gain features that
are too crazy for RELAX NG + Schematron. :-)
You do need to know how to write it though...
Need to know how to write a normative DTD???
--
Henri Sivonen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
