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Re: XHTML and XML on the Web

From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 08:04:28 -0400
Message-ID: <c70bc85d0608040504j2899378avd8be642afa832d@mail.gmail.com>
To: "Karl Dubost" <karl@w3.org>
Cc: "'public-evangelist@w3.org' w3. org" <public-evangelist@w3.org>

On 8/4/06, Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org> wrote:
> Does that mean that XML does in fact better than HTML on the "Web"?

Nice try 8-)

In fact, the set of documents that the Web thinks is HTML is
significantly larger than what the validators would lead you to
believe.  The problem is that the validators don't reflect reality
because the HTML spec hasn't been revised to reflect concensus in the
browsers.

Mark.
Received on Friday, 4 August 2006 12:04:39 GMT

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