joining the party a little late here.. unless i have misunderstood things here this is a perfect situation to employ XSLT ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT). you can assign whatever attributes you require to the XML and then use XSLT to have the browser render the file as XHTML.
On 2 August 2012 10:38, <wsg@webstandardsgroup.org> wrote: > ********************************************************************* > WEB STANDARDS GROUP MAIL LIST DIGEST > ********************************************************************* > > > From: Mathew Robertson <mathew.blair.robert...@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 09:57:54 +1000 > Subject: Re: [WSG] XHTML5 polyglot markup and WAI-ARIA, is there a valid > way? > > Hi Isabel, > > It sounds like you might be confusing/mixing your requirements... from the > limited information you have provided, this sounds like perfect candidate > to generate two separate files.... ie: HTML already has accessibility built > in, and you get the XML file contain exactly what you require. > > regards, > Mathew Robertson > > On 1 August 2012 09:29, Isabel Santos <unboun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Rob, > > > > thank you, and sorry for the delayed answer. > > > > The need for xml comes from the site being > > a web application for an academic work. > > The idea is to generate xml both to the site and for exchange purposes. > > > > I could generate both xml and html but that isn't very elegant, > > and would not optimise the resources. > > In fact, accessibility, validity, design and usability are my own > concerns, > > they aren't part of the work, won't be evaluated, > > and are taking more time then they should. > > > > Anyway, as long as it is possible to do, > > the more difficult a work, the more one learns. > > > > I gess I've lost a good part of the WAI-ARIA development history, > > it's kind of hard to understand the excessive and aparently arbitrary > > strictness > > of xhtml in regards to ARIA. > > > > regards, > > > > isabel > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Rob Crowther <robe...@boogdesign.com > >wrote: > > > > > >> What XML content do you need to include? If you just stick to regular > >> HTML5 then all the ARIA stuff is valid (with some sanity restrictions) > and > >> you won't have to work around the strict parsing: > >> > >> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/**web-apps/current-work/** > >> multipage/elements.html#wai-**aria< > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/elements.html#wai-aria > > > >> > >> XML elements will be parsed into the HTML5 document tree, albeit > slightly > >> differently to how an XML document would be parsed, but maybe close > enough > >> for your purposes depending on what XML you'll be including. > >> > >> Rob > > > > > > > > ******************************************************************* > > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > > ******************************************************************* > > > ********************************************************************* > From: Rob Crowther <robe...@boogdesign.com> > Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 02:01:34 +0100 > Subject: Re: [WSG] XHTML5 polyglot markup and WAI-ARIA, is there a valid > way? > > On 01/08/12 00:29, Isabel Santos wrote: > > I could generate both xml and html but that isn't very elegant, > > and would not optimise the resources. > > Unless you serve the XHTML files with a MIME type of application/xml or > application/xhtml+xml, which will break things in IE<9, the browser will > treat all the content as HTML anyway. This is precisely because of > XHTML's arbitrary strictness. > > > http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/HTML_vs._XHTML#Differences_Between_HTML_and_XHTML > > Rob > > > ************************************************************** > Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ************************************************************** > > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
