- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:32:15 +0200
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>, Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@gmail.com>, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>, public-html WG <public-html@w3.org>, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, "Michael[tm] Smith" <mike@w3.org>
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:44 AM, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> wrote: > If a non-well-formed HTML document had to be be converted to XHTML > before being processed, then why not choose to convert to polyglot > xhtml? Because HTML to XHTML conversion can be automated without significant data loss (if you consider mapping form feed to another space character insignificant and consider the munging of some identifierst that have no defined meaning in HTML insignificant) and because you don't need to convert to polyglot--only XHTML--to process the doc as XHTML. HTML to polyglot conversion cannot be similarly automated, because e.g. ampersands in inline scripts are both common and significant. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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