Re: Maturity of XML

Jirka Kosek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in the section 1.4.1 (http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#html-vs) there is:
> 
> "Generally speaking, authors are discouraged from trying to use XML on
> the Web, because XML has much stricter syntax rules than the "HTML5"
> variant described above, and is relatively newer and therefore less mature."
> ...

Out of context, this sounds really bad, because it looks like an attempt 
to discourage use of XML *in general*. Minimally, this should be 
rephrased to say "XHTML" instead of "XML".

Best regards, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 1 August 2007 13:20:25 UTC