[Bug 10895] Use markup compatible with both HTML/XML syntax in examples

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10895

Peter Winnberg <peter.winnberg@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Peter Winnberg <peter.winnberg@gmail.com> 2010-12-08 08:00:18 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
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> Status: Rejected
> Change Description: no spec change
> Rationale: see comment 1. There's nothing wrong with just using text/html
> syntax (in text/html documents) or just using XML syntax (in XML documents);
> there's almost never a need to try to write in the very limited subset that is
> both, and especially no reason to encourage it.

The HTML5 specification has both a HTML and a XML syntax. It makes no sense to
have examples of just one of them when they many of them easily could be
changed to be compatible with both. This does not mean that authors cannot use
markup that isn’t compatible with both.

There is of course another solution to this and that is to move the examples to
separate document(s) that has examples of both. But that would be a lot more
work.

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Received on Wednesday, 8 December 2010 08:00:21 UTC