Re: "HTML5 microsyntaxes instead of XSD datatypes"

On 2 Apr 2008, at 18:53, Dan Connolly wrote:

> Please help me remember to follow up; i.e. find
> test cases that distinguish the two designs and find out
> what requirements, if any, motivate the differences.

Sorry for jumping in on this like this (I saw this on -archive), but  
the answer is the normal one: there is a large amount of content that  
relies on the existing algorithms. There are known bugs in the  
algorithms, but I do have tests for what is currently there (at least  
for the numeric ones) at <http://hg.gsnedders.com/php-html-5-direct/file/tip/tests/numbersTest 
 > (see the README file in the same folder for more info).

I'd massively dislike to see HTML 5 using different algorithms in  
different places, so I firmly believe we should just stick with one  
algorithm everywhere, which due to the afore mentioned already  
deployed content, must be similar to what we already have.


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Geoffrey Sneddon
<http://gsnedders.com/>