- From: Dean Edridge <dean@55.co.nz>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:37:33 +1200
- To: public-html@w3.org
In regards to the naming of the XML serialisation of HTML5. In my opinion it makes perfectly good sense for the XML serialisation of HTML5 to be called XHTML5 as was proposed earlier. I hope that this will be officially adopted by the HTML working group. To my understanding XHTML 2 is not an XML serialisation of HTML, but a whole new language based on XML, not HTML4 or XHTML1.x. Therefore it does not deserve the right to use the name XHTML 2 and I recommend that it be renamed something else. This would free up the name XHTML5 to be used for the XML version of HTML5. The current HTML5 working draft is the 5th version of the HTML language and by default it is serialised as HTML (text/html) therefore it makes sense that it is called HTML5. For similar reasons the XHTML version of this document should be called XHTML5 as it is literally the XML serialisation of the 5th version of the HTML language. regards, Dean Edridge
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