- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:36:49 +1000
- To: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- CC: www-forms@w3.org, public-appformats@w3.org
Jim Ley wrote: >> In fact, formsPlayer seems to add support for XForms in text/html >> documents, which is obviously non-conformant, because text/html is not >> XML! > > Even I can't actually say that, and I want to, and it's unfortunate, but > XHTML 1.0 can be served as text/html, so therefore text/html can be XML, of > course that's bad, but it's a fact of life. That is only true when the document conforms to XHTML 1.0 Appendix C. Appendix C does not apply to any other XML language, including XForms, MathML or even XHTML 1.1. Thus, given that a mixed namespace document is *not* strictly "XHTML 1.0", the Appendix C Guidelines don't apply. Therefore, an XHTML document containing XForms (or any other XML language) cannot be served as text/html. However, even if I'm wrong about that, doing so is insane and goes directly against what John Boyer wrote earlier in the thread: | [...] it is important to do our best to preserve the XML basis for | new features to help entice content toward well-formedness. Well-formedness constraints don't apply to text/html, so that ideal is simply not being preserved. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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