On 3/9/07, ryan king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mar 7, 2007, at 7:09 AM, Michael(tm) Smith wrote: > ... > > Amen. > > It's really amusing to see people continuing to trot out > matter-of-fact statements dismissing XHTML. Those statements seem > to fall into two basic types that can be paraphrased as either: > > - The only people who author documents in XHTML are naive > developers/designers who do it just because they have been > mislead into thinking that it's the cool/right thing to do. > > - The only people who user/serve-up XHTML are pedants who are > out of touch with browser/implementation realities. > > It seems to me that those who make such statements either: > > - are unaware of any useful things that can be done with > documents other than just displaying them in browsers -- or > about how having those as well-formed XML can potentially make > it easier to process them > > - have an agenda that makes them (consciously or unconsciously) > want to dissuade others from using XHTML/XML (and XSLT, etc.) > and to instead use alternatives (whatever alternatives they > happen to personally be promoting) Or they realize that even those who (1) know what they're doing and (2) care, still get things wrong: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A//people.w3.org/mike/ -ryan PS - my homepage is invalid, too: http://validator.w3.org/check? uri=http%3A//theryanking.com/blog/
Though Michael's homepage is invalid, it remains well-formed. Michael is arguing for the inhert value of XML well-formedness, not validity. In my experience, most generic XML tools only care about well-formedness. Schemas, DTDs, and RelaxNGs are rarely consulted. -- Leons Petrazickis http://lpetr.org/blog/
