Re: HTML Literals - Core

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:

>
> On May 14, 2013, at 19:07 , Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.com> wrote:
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> > It also seems to me that HTML literals belong in the core at some point
> in the future.
>
> Actually... I am not sure. HTML Literals are specifically aimed at...
> HTML. I am not sure it would make sense to use HTML Literals in, say, RDFa
> annotated SVG...
>

Sure, but no more than it does to use XML literals in an HTML serialized
document.

It just feels like a basic literal type to me that should be there in the
core regardless of whether or not the host language can actually support it.


-- 
--Alex Milowski
"The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the
inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
considered."

Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics