- From: Eliot Graff <eliotgra@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:23:26 +0000
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, "Simpson, Grant Leyton" <glsimpso@indiana.edu>
- CC: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Any other conversation or objections about the title? Otherwise I am going to make the change to the eloquent and persuasively-argued: Polyglot Markup: HTML-compatible XHTML Documents Thanks, Eliot > [...] > > Persuasively argued. I'm won over. > > :-D > > >> By the way, what do you think about saying "XHTML" instead of "XML"? > >> > >> 'Polyglot markup: HTML Compatible XHTML Documents' > > > > This is better yet, since the document deals specifically with XHTML > > and not other applications of XML. > > "XML" could give the impression of a from-scratch definition of XHTML. > But "XML" gives emphasize too the fact that XHTML *is* XML - authors tend > to forget that. > > What speaks *for* 'XHTML' is the goal of an identical DOM: In a HTML5 > parser, then (a) <html> is always root element and (b) always in XHTML > namespace. Hence (c) a HTML 'text/html' document requires SVG, MathML > etc to be embedded in HTML. Which again means that a HTML-compatible > XML document (A) has to be of XHTML flavor and (B) cannot contain SVG, > MathML unless embedded in XHTML. Some will undoubtably be confused > and ask if not XHTML, being a reformulation of HTML in XML, isn't already > XML. However, that is also the kind of question we want them to ask. > > So all in all, I tend to agree that 'XHTML Documents' is better. > > > My only addition would be a > > hyphen to make "HTML Compatible" into a compound adjective: > > > > "Polyglot Markup: HTML-compatible XHTML Documents" > > Excellent. Btw, did evaluate 'polyglot' as a noun? See Lachlan & > Wikipedia: [1][2] > > "Polyglots: HTML-compatible XHTML Documents" > > [1] http://www.w3.org/mid/4C10D733.8060702@lachy.id.au > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing) > -- > leif halvard silli >
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