On Mar 31, 2008, at 11:28, David Carlisle wrote: > The DOM models the internal memory structire of a browser, What > passes > between applications is typically the serial form. That's the essence > of the definition of a markup language, that it defines a common > language that can be shared between people or applications. We can ask browsers to use the XML serialization for clipboad export on platforms that have pre-existing deployed XML-based clipboard flavor for MathML. That will have to be a reserialization of the DOM anyway, so the syntax from which the DOM was built no longer matters. > There is a big difference between say dropping quotes around > attributes > that can be automatically put back in for any tree (without any > specific > language knowledge, and parsing string of unmarked up text to infer > some tree structure. The right way to do either is to run an HTML5 parser. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/Received on Monday, 31 March 2008 08:50:11 GMT
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