- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:12:52 +0100
- To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Cc: "public-html-xml@w3.org" <public-html-xml@w3.org>
On 16/08/2011 23:45, John Cowan wrote: > David Carlisle scripsit: > >> For an xml5-style lenient xml parse (which I'd only define as part >> of, or companion to, html rather than changing xml itself) > > What would be the benefit of lenient XML parsing in the XHTML > context? You might just as well use the HTML syntax. > Well, as I mentioned, I wouldn't want lenient parsing in most xml contexts, I want the process to die given bad input. It's in a browser, or similar situations where lenient parsing makes most sense. There are many things you get on the xml/xhtml side that you don't get on the html parsing side of the browser. Notably the ability to mix elements or attributes from other namespaces (or no-namespace for that matter) and have them parse as xml to be styled by xsl or css or whatever. Sometimes the disadvantages out-way the advantages (I'm seriously considering switching the NAG documentation from xhtml+mathml to html(5)) but sometimes using the xhtml side of things _is_ the right answer to the "extensibility" issues that plagued the html discussions for quite some time. David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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