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Re: ISSUE-54 (html5-doctype-vs-xslt): XSLT 1.0 can not generate HTML5 documents [HTML 5 spec]

From: Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:53:40 +0100
Message-ID: <48B79CF4.9070306@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
CC: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org> 



Henri Sivonen wrote:

>  3) It would bring versioning ("5") into the spec through the back door.

Versioning /is/ implicit in the draft specification, but is deliberately
concealed.  A document starting "<!DOCTYPE html>" is, by definition,
HTML 5 or later (and later authorities may place an upper bound
on how much later).  Why there is this resistance to making the
version explicit is beyond my comprehension.

Philip TAYLOR
Received on Friday, 29 August 2008 06:54:56 GMT

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