Re: Default XSL stylesheet for XHTML documents

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Tantek Celik wrote:
> From: Ian Hickson <ianh@netscape.com>
>>> Uhm, in what way is XHTML 'semantic'.
>> Headers, paragraphs, citations, quotes, variables, sample code,
>> definitions, lists -- they are all mark-up-able without even suggesting a
>> formatting style.
> 
> Uh, no.
> 
> XHTML itself has no semantics.  All it does is point to HTML4.x which _does_
> have semantics (as you listed).  Go check the XHTML spec.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ says:
# The semantics of the elements and their attributes are defined in the
# W3C Recommendation for HTML 4.

So the elements and attributes have semantics. Those semantics are defined
somewhere other than the spec itself, but that is a secondary issue.

Your argument is like saying that the grammar of CSS2 has no meaning
because we do not define the whole of LL(1), we only point to it.

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