- From: Daniel Hiester <alatus@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 17:53:03 -0800
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
Well, then, if Tag Soup will continue to be a problem (and I can understand why... I debatedly began writing HTML in tag soup way back in '95 or so, I think), then why not just make tag soup incompliant w/ XHTML? When I wrote Tag Soup, I never used a Doctype Declaration... almost nobody did back then. (and at that, it wasn't really tag soup, it was "kinda" tag soup) If a Document is going to be well-formed, then it must include a doctype declaration. If it isn't well-formed, then it shouldn't include a doctype declaration. Let tag soup continue to exist; but if tag soup authors put doctype declarations into the documents, the parser should just totally ruin it. Let the author "figure out" that the doctype declaration is ruining their tag soup. At that point, they realize they don't know "real xhtml." I've written too much already... Daniel
Received on Sunday, 5 December 1999 20:51:16 UTC