RE: [Parsing] When/how flagged as being HTML

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De la part de Karl Dubost
> Envoyé : mardi 10 juillet 2007 03:47

> But it isn't related to when the document or the input is 
> flagged as being HTML. So back to the sentence
> 
>      Document objects are assumed to be XML documents
>      unless they are flagged as being HTML documents when
>      they are created.
> 
> * When an input stream is actually flagged as being HTML?
> * How do we flag an input stream as being an HTML document?
>      * HTTP text/html
>      * local filesystem?
> 
> Related question:
> A document sent with application/xhtml+xml must be treated by 
> an XML parser.
> What an HTML parser does when receiving such a document. ignores it?  
> (in the case I have built an application which has only an 
> HTML parser and not an XML Parser.)

All your questioning brings me back to a question I didn't dare ask thus
far, for fear of reopening what looks like a huge can of worms, but why was
the "5" dropped in the doctype?

I'm back-reading on that, but all the threads are very long, so could
anybody summarize why the "5" was dropped?
(in reference to Chris Wilson's message "Versioning and html[5]" [1] - and
even before reading that, I thought it's sound to include a version number).

Side thought related to your question: maybe we could have two doctypes, one
for HTML5 parsed as HTML, one for HTML5 parsed as XML. (after all, we've got
three DTD's for HTML4[2] and apart from transitional, two of them are for
separate types of HTML with separate validation criteria).

Again, my apologies if people find my question offensive and repetitive. I
have a few more candid points coming up ;)

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Apr/0612.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/intro.html

-- 
Best regards,
Stéphane Deschamps
  Web HCI expert
  orange / france telecom group


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