[Bug 11064] unstated requirement to be valid.

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11064

--- Comment #9 from Eliot Graff <eliotgra@microsoft.com> 2010-10-30 00:41:57 UTC ---
> I believe that the document should say explicitly that it is documenting
> _extra_ constraints that must be satisfied by a document that is well formed
> XML and valid HTML5  in order that compatible DOM are generated by an XML or
> HTML5 parser.
> 
> then the document should restrict itself to those extra constraints and remove
> all sections that only describe requirements of being xml well formed.
> 
> An alternative, as described in the original comment would be to assume the
> document is both valid as html5 and valid to some xml schema, in which case the
> majority of the document could be removed.

I will work on language to indicate that polyglot involves the extra
constraints of satisfying HTML and XML parsers.

> 
> (I could understand a "needsinfo" classification, but clearly the issue isn't
> resolved, so I re-opened.

I apologize. I meant just to toss the bug back to you for more info, but I
could not get bugzilla to enable the MORE INFO field unless I also selected
RESOLVED.

Thanks,

Eliot

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Received on Saturday, 30 October 2010 00:42:00 UTC