Re: What problem is this task force trying to solve and why? from John Cowan on 2010-12-22 (public-html-xml@w3.org from December 2010)

From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:48:59 -0500
To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, public-html-xml@w3.org
Message-ID: <20101222014859.GK25830@mercury.ccil.org>

Scripsi:

> It's not clear to me which arm of this trichotomy the WG will accept.
> Most specifications accept it by making it either an error or undefined
> to use unknown elements, but HTML5 does neither.

For "accept it" read "escape it".

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                John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
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Received on Wednesday, 22 December 2010 01:49:28 UTC