- From: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:19:44 +0100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Robert J Burns <rob@robburns.com>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, plh@w3.org
On Feb 12, 2009, at 10:30 , Julian Reschke wrote:
> The problem is that you do not always have context.
>
> For instance, XHTML elements can appear in many other XML documents,
> re-using the document markup semantics. In this case, you frequently
> have a single element, and no context at all.
That's a problem of the host language. Some elements need context and
that's the end of their story. I don't think that <li> is broken
because you don't know what type of list item it is without its
container, or that svg:rect is broken because while it retains its
semantics it cannot be rendered without a container to define its
viewport.
If a host language reuses from XHTML, then it's up to it to provide
the necessary context for interpretation.
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Received on Thursday, 12 February 2009 10:20:14 UTC