- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:32:41 +0200
- To: "Noah Mendelsohn" <nrm@arcanedomain.com>, "John Cowan" <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Cc: "public-html-xml@w3.org" <public-html-xml@w3.org>, "Larry Masinter" <LMM@acm.org>
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:45:12 +0200, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote: > 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. Your principle is wrong. HTML is not repaired; processing just does not stop. Doing the same for XML is fairly trivial. (As is doing it for CSS, WebVTT, event streams, etc.) -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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