- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 07:53:43 -0400
- To: "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
At 8:13 PM +0000 8/17/02, Ian Hickson wrote: >Actually, much to my dismay (although that's another story) XHTML1 has >achieved huge traction. You have a very different definition of huge traction than I do. Outside the W3C web site I encounter almost no pages written invalid XHTML. Even more importantly I repeatedly notice that even the most recent browsers fail to handle basic XML techniques like CDATA sections and non-predefined entity and character references. >> If you want semantically tagged information, jump to pure XML > >XHTML1 _is_ pure XML. > By pure XML, I meant "make up your own vocabulary as you go" rather than using something that's been defined for you. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0596002920/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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