- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:52:12 +0100
- To: jg307@cam.ac.uk
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, www-math@w3.org
> That problem turns out to be harder to solve than it at first appears > because of legacy content that has to keep working. Including, one hopes, legacy content using content mathml annotations, > It's not clear to me that all the problems listed should be regarded as fatal, > so there is some hope that a solution can be found that doesn't require > hardcoding all tag names in the parser. quite! Personally, given that we're in html I'd expect that general html parse rules applied everywhere (automatically closing end tags etc (ie option 2 of proposal 2 in http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Extensions) It would be even better if "html style parsing" were something defined, that is, html5 parsing was specified as a general mechanism over which special behaviour for specific elements was declared. As it is currently, with all the special casing hardwired into the parse algorithm, it makes it less obvious how that parser applies to other formats (hence the pressure to explictly list every element you think might be used) David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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