[Bug 28868] Fig 1 error?

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=28868

--- Comment #3 from Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org> ---
(In reply to Simon Grant from comment #2)
> I guess people will understand what is right, but it's confusing anyway and
> it would be great to get it straight.

The message we rightly should be sending to readers about this document right
now is just: Don't use. At all.

I will work on getting the /TR document and Editor's Draft both updated to say
that.

Actually, the broader message we need to be sending is

* Don't try to make polyglot documents.
* That is, don't try to make documents that can be parsed by XML parsers and by
HTML parsers (because there are too many things that can go wrong)

That's the message that many people over many years suggested we make a long
time ago. Unfortunately we had other people who thought it was a good idea to
encourage authors to try it, so this spec ended up getting made.

But now as you can see the people thought this spec was such a great idea have
since abandoned it and we're now stuck with cleaning up the mess they left
behind.

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Received on Monday, 6 July 2015 13:47:58 UTC