- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:45:12 -0400
- To: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, "public-html-xml@w3.org" <public-html-xml@w3.org>, Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
Noah Mendelsohn scripsit: > Hmm. First of all, I certainly would be glad to find out that XML5 > could "work", and be widely accepted; it's just the sort of direction > I was hoping the task force would find to be practical. I continue to believe that XML5 is not practical because of the generality of XML. Malformed HTML can be repaired on the principle of "change it to be well-formed HTML that browsers will treat identically to the original." No equivalent principle exists for XML, because there are no privileged XML-processing applications; the canonical application for XML depends on the variety of XML, and may not even exist for many varieties. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan If a soldier is asked why he kills people who have done him no harm, or a terrorist why he kills innocent people with his bombs, they can always reply that war has been declared, and there are no innocent people in an enemy country in wartime. The answer is psychotic, but it is the answer that humanity has given to every act of aggression in history. --Northrop Frye
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