Re: What to do about newlines in attribute values?

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:28 PM, David Lee <David.Lee@marklogic.com> wrote:

> Uche sayith ..****
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> I think you've really got hold of the wrong idea here.  See above re: the
> actual ugliness in question.****
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> I know I have something wrong, thanks for the comments.
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So I was a bit emphatic in what I said, just to be sure you got the point,
but the below makes me think you still didn't get the point, and the above
seems a reaction to my emphasis.  Oh well.



> ****
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> What led me down this path was John’s comment when I asked if you want to
> author HTML5 why not just author HTML5 and his answer (paraphrased) was
> “Its Ugly”****
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> But what your saying is that a  MicroXML document can be an HTML5 document
> “as is”.  So its NOT ugly.****
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> Or is it ?   ****
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> This confuses me.****
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> What is the difference between 2 documents that are byte equal and one is
> HTML5 and one Is MicroXML …****
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> I don’t see a difference … if they are byte equal … thus where is the
> “Ugly” part coming in if you are “Authoring HTML5” and simply choose to use
> the simple part ?  Why is MicroXML relevant to this ?****
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> If I say to myself “I am editing a MicroXML document” that is easy and
> simple****
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> But if I say to myself “ I am editing an HTML5 document” that is ugly and
> complicated.****
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> WTF ?
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Once again, the ugliness is not at all in the realm you are thinking of.
 John never said all HTML5 documents are ugly.  He did make general
reference to the ugliness in HTML5.  I explained to you that this ugliness
emerges from the rules required when dealing with examples of HTML5 that
are very un-MicroXML like, i.e. what is often called tag soup.  *If you
create HTML5 that follows parallel rules to MicroXML's* the ugliness does
not come up at all, which is the entire point.

But honestly, I don't see how this side discussion is all that relevant to
the pressing question at hand, so that will do from me for now.


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