Re: XHTML 2.0 considered harmful

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Daniel Glazman wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
>>
>> I don't understand what you mean by this. The spec doesn't talk about
>> carriage returns or line feeds. The only normative part of the spec
>> you just quoted is "The l element contains a sub-paragraph that
>> represents a sinle line of text".
>>
>> The informative part, indicating how to render it, merely says "It
>> contains a piece of text that when visually represented should start
>> on a new line, and have a line break at the end", which is perfectly
>> well handled by 'display:block'.
> 
> Section 8 of XHTML2 WD says "this section is normative".
> and nothing in section 8.10 says its first paragraph is informative.
> The "normative" of section 8 applies to 8.10 too.

My bad, I misread "should" for "could".

In any case, I still don't understand what your point was. Could you
explain what you meant in

   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2003Jan/0176.html

...?

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