- From: Ian Hickson via cvs-syncmail <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:02:05 +0000
- To: public-html-commits@w3.org
Update of /sources/public/html5/spec
In directory hutz:/tmp/cvs-serv15811
Modified Files:
Overview.html
Log Message:
use more consistent wording (this is referred to as migration in other parts of the spec) (whatwg r4928)
Index: Overview.html
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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
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@@ -1992,17 +1992,18 @@
</dd>
- <dt>Errors that are intended to help authors of polyglot documents</dt>
+ <dt>Errors that are intended to help authors migrating to and from XHTML</dt>
<dd>
<p>Some authors like to write files that can be interpreted as
- both XML and HTML with similar results. These are known as
- polyglot documents. Though this practice is discouraged in general
- due to the myriad of subtle complications involved (especially
- when involving scripting, styling, or any kind of automated
- serialization), this specification has a few restrictions intended
- to at least somewhat mitigate the difficulties.</p>
+ both XML and HTML with similar results. Though this practice is
+ discouraged in general due to the myriad of subtle complications
+ involved (especially when involving scripting, styling, or any
+ kind of automated serialization), this specification has a few
+ restrictions intended to at least somewhat mitigate the
+ difficulties. This makes it easier for authors to use this as a
+ transitionary step when migrating between HTML and XHTML.</p>
<p class="example">For example, there are somewhat complicated
rules surrounding the <code title="attr-lang"><a href="#attr-lang">lang</a></code> and
@@ -2012,8 +2013,8 @@
<p class="example">Another example would be the restrictions on
the values of <code title="">xmlns</code> attributes in the HTML
serialization, which are intended to ensure that elements in
- conforming polyglot documents end up in the same namespaces
- whether processed as HTML or XML.</p>
+ conforming documents end up in the same namespaces whether
+ processed as HTML or XML.</p>
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