- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:28:19 +0200
- To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- CC: www-tag@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > > At 11:40 AM -0700 8/19/02, Tantek Çelik wrote: > >> MOST.......................................LEAST >> MathML (X)HTML SVG XSLFO XML PNG > > > I don't believe this order. I think the line looks more like this: > > MOST.......................................LEAST > XML MathML (X)HTML SVG XSLFO PNG > > The only way to conclude that XHTML is more semantic is to ignore the > reality that most web pages are not just ordered paragraphs of text. All > HTML tells you is that something is a paragraph, a level 1 heading, a > table, monospaced, preformatted, and a few other things. > <SINGER>Madonna</SINGER> is more semantic than <SPAN>Madonna</SPAN>. > There is more useful information in the XML content, even without a DTD, > even without prior agreement, than there is in the HTML. The part I fail to understand is "even without agreement". How is that going to make more sense than a vocabulary that has agreed upon semantics such as MathML? Are we talking about a musician or about a sewing machine model? -- Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr> Research Engineer, Expway
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