- From: Ian Hickson <ianh@netscape.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 17:31:00 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
- To: Tantek Celik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- cc: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
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. -- Ian Hickson )\ _. - ._.) fL Netscape, Standards Compliance QA /. `- ' ( `--' +1 650 937 6593 `- , ) - > ) \ irc.mozilla.org:Hixie _________________________ (.' \) (.' -' __________
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