- From: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@x-port.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:07:06 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
Hi Maciej, > But not this part. XML is a markup language with a specific syntax. > HTML is not XML, no matter how much you make it "behave like XML". Actually, what most people want is the other way round--XHTML that can be rendered as HTML. The most mature renderers available are HTML-based, and although there are discrepancies between them, those differences are less obvious the more 'conformant' the mark-up is that they are displaying. So making use of the enormous array of XML tools that are available, to generate XMLised HTML (let's call it X-HTML ;)) is for a lot of people standard practice. Not all of these documents get rendered, but obviously lots do. And all most authors want is for the various renderers out there to show their documents. They don't really want validation and all that kind of thing in the _browser_ when deploying, although obviously it's useful when testing, since the more conformant a document is, the more likely it will rendered in the same way on multiple clients. So building XHTML *renderers* seems to me to be a bit of a waste of time, whilst making clear how XHTML documents can be rendered by HTML renderers seems an extremely valuable goal. Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck, formsPlayer mark.birbeck@x-port.net | +44 (0) 20 7689 9232 http://www.formsPlayer.com | http://internet-apps.blogspot.com standards. innovation.
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