- From: ryan <ryan@theryanking.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:01:26 -0700
- To: Henrik Dvergsdal <henrik.dvergsdal@hibo.no>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Apr 12, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Henrik Dvergsdal wrote: > On 12. apr. 2007, at 23.36, Ian Hickson wrote: > >> SGML/XML aren't relevant to this discussion, as we're not talking >> about >> the SGML or XML serialisations of HTML, but the text/html >> serialistion. > > As far as I know text/html is the MIME type of the SGML and XML > serializations of HTML. > > Are you planning to make a standard that is not based on SGML and XML? If we accept the WHAT-WG's latest draft, then yes: from http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#parsing: > While the HTML form of HTML5 bears a close resemblance to SGML and > XML, it is a separate language with its own parsing rules. > > Some earlier versions of HTML (in particular from HTML2 to HTML4) > were based on SGML and used SGML parsing rules. However, few (if > any) web browsers ever implemented true SGML parsing for HTML > documents; the only user agents to strictly handle HTML as an SGML > application have historically been validators. The resulting > confusion — with validators claiming documents to have one > representation while widely deployed Web browsers interoperably > implemented a different representation — has resulted in this > version of HTML returning to a non-SGML basis. > > Authors interested in using SGML tools in their authoring pipeline > are encouraged to use the XML serialisation of HTML5 instead of the > HTML serialisation. -ryan
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