On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:51:05 +0200, Jonathan Rees <[email protected]> wrote: > This question sounds so stupid that I didn't want to ask it in public. > > Many web-related languages that have idiosyncratic syntax also provide > an XML surface syntax. Examples are Turtle (RDF/XML), xquery, OWL 2 > (OWL/XML). To ensure that HTML5 can participate in XML pipelines in a > standard way, wouldn't it be a good idea to have a standard XML > surface syntax for HTML5, with semantics preserved over round trips? > Perhaps this even could be done using a set of extensions to XHTML.
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-xhtml-syntax.html Already works fine in modern browsers for new elements such as <canvas>, <video>, etc. There is also the following section for how an HTML byte stream maps to an infoset http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/syntax.html#coercing-an-html-dom-into-an-infoset which I believe is implemented by the Validator.nu software. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
