- From: Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
- Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:27:20 +0100
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- CC: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Lachlan Hunt wrote: > Due to the strict syntax rules and error handling requirements of XML, > authors choosing to use XHTML should use caution in doing so to ensure > that well-formedness constraints are not violated to the detriment of > end users. Gowers, Fowler et al would have had an apoplectic fit on reading that. /If/ we are to say anything at all about X(HT)ML [1], then I would suggest that the Plain English version of Lachlan's prose might be : XHTML documents must be well formed; if they are not, they will not be rendered by an XML-compliant user agent. Philip Taylor -------- [1] And I still maintain that it is not within our aegis so to do.
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