- 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 =================================================================== RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v retrieving revision 1.3948 retrieving revision 1.3949 diff -u -d -r1.3948 -r1.3949 --- Overview.html 31 Mar 2010 20:42:28 -0000 1.3948 +++ Overview.html 31 Mar 2010 21:02:02 -0000 1.3949 @@ -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> </dd>
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