On 23 Mar 2007, at 13:17, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:40:47 +0100, Nicholas Shanks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Mostly unused, not even deprecated, these elements bloat the spec, confuse lay authors (i.e. those not of a computer science background) and I feel would be better represented by a custom XML vocabulary.How does that help anyone? Putting them in a custom XML vocabulary drops all semantics directly. (Unless a search engine does some heuristics on element names I suppose.) Custom XML vocabularies are really not something you want to have on the web as its implied they have no known semantics.
Not true.XHTML, MathML and SVG are all custom vocabularies with very widely known semantics. There's nothing preventing a future "CodeML" syntax from being understood by Koders and Google Code Search.
- Nicholas.
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