On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:25:27 +0100, Dean Edridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anne van Kesteren wrote:
There is no "the one syntax"
But there could be ...... *if* there's not already.
In XHTML you want to be allowed to write markup like this:
<h:html xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en">
...
For obvious reasons this doesn't work in HTML.
In HTML you want to write markup like this:
<script>
if(x<y) alert("<danger>")
</script>
For obvious reasons this doens't work in XHTML. Restricting either one so
that in theory you can copy and paste between them doesn't seem worth it.
It's not just what I wish to do in the future. It's about the whole
world, it's about all the documents that will be circulating out there.
They will be incompatible with each other.
They already are. However, on a language level they are not incompatible.
How on earth do you think that HTML5 and XHTML5 will live on the web at
the same time without some type of increased normalisation between the
two?
By using separate consumers that handle each in an appropriate way. You
need that anyway to deal with non-conforming HTML and XHTML using XML
features.
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Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>
