Re: [CSS21] Example not well formed

Hi,

Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:

>* Craig Northway wrote:
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>>>>Section 5.9
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>>>>The example in section 5.9 is not well formed XML. Please make this well 
>>>>formed XML (i.e. then it will probably be well formed XHTML!)
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>>>Yes, most HTML documents are not well-formed XML, so this seems to be
>>>a duplicate of http://www.w3.org/mid/430DB80F.80504@cisra.canon.com.au
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>>Shouldn't the W3C be promoting the creation of well-formed documents?
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>>From http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
>it seems the answer is no... But this does not seem relevant here,
>there is no well-defined notion of "well-formed" for HTML documents. 
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>If you mean whether W3C should promote use of HTML over XHTML then
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XHTML over HTML...

>that might well be so but that's not the case at the moment. CSS is
>more commonly used with HTML than with XHTML documents, it therefore
>makes sense to include HTML examples in the CSS specifications.
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Aren't valid xhtml documents valid html documents? (in general).

Craig

Received on Thursday, 25 August 2005 13:16:41 UTC