- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:22:58 +0200
- To: "Jirka Kosek" <jirka@kosek.cz>
- Cc: www-archive@w3.org
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:00:30 +0200, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote: > Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:11:34 +0200, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote: >>> Thanks, but these are counter-precedents. XML C14N defines one very >>> normalized form of serialization which can be used if you want to >>> compare documents that might have differences only in a syntax sugar >>> (insignificant whitespaces, attribute order, ...), but their content is >>> the same. In this sense HTML5 is less canonical then HTML 4.01 because >>> it has much more relaxed syntax. >> >> How exactly is the syntax more relaxed? > > Parse errors are allowed to be corrected by parser: > > [...] That doesn't make the syntax more relaxed though. That just defines error handling. > This was not case with HTML 4.01 specification (note I'm not talking > about HTML user agents here, which were very happy to correct syntax > errors for you). > > Jirka > > P.S. Any reason why you are without noticing sending copy of this > message to www-archive and not to html-public mailing list? What do you mean "without noticing"? I changed the subject line... Just doing that because it isn't particularly relevant for the discussion at hand. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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