ISSUE-59 (normative-language-reference): Should the HTML WG produce a separate document that is a normative language reference and if so what are the requirements [HTML 5 spec]

ISSUE-59 (normative-language-reference): Should the HTML WG produce a separate document that is a normative language reference and if so what are the requirements [HTML 5 spec]

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/59

Raised by: Shawn Medero
On product: HTML 5 spec

In the joint meeting with the HTML WG and TAG it was discussed that HTML producers need a clean language specification.

Meeting transcript from #html-wg: http://www.w3.org/2008/10/23-html-wg-minutes.html

Work has been done in this area within the HTML WG and two examples were offered up as possible solutions:

* The Web Developer's Guide to HTML 5 W3C, Editor - Lachlan Hunt
  http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/
* HTML 5 - A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML - 8.1 Writing HTML documents, Editor - Ian Hickson
  http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#writing-html-documents