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Re: should CSS, HTML, etc. documents bear version information? (XMLVersioning-41?)

From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 01:20:13 -0400
Message-ID: <e9dffd640704032220o630ffffcx528003c990b6fac4@mail.gmail.com>
To: "David Orchard" <dorchard@bea.com>
Cc: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com, www-tag@w3.org

I wonder if we're talking about the same "version" here, so I'll ask a
clarifying question;
if the document self-identified as, say, HTML 4 Strict instead of 3.2,
what would that be useful for?

Mark.

On 4/4/07, David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com> wrote:
> In the case that was raised, I'd say that it was a bit more than what
> Noah mentioned.  I'd say that HTML is *the* key vocabulary as it's the
> container, and knowing it's version is truly useful.  Knowing it's HTML
> as the "root" of a compound document is more interesting than knowing
> it's HTML as part of a compound document - one example being WS-RP
> messages which are SOAP messages containing HTML for portals.
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