Re: The only name for the xml serialisation of html5

Karl Dubost wrote:
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> Dean Edridge (30 août 2007 - 20:37) :
>> 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.
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> Just a clarification point if necessary (and not taking side on this 
> debate).
> The "X" in XHTML 1.0 doesn't mean "XML serialization", but extensible.
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>      XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language
>      http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
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> Maybe it should have been called "ehtml". :)
>
> PS:
> For now, when I talk about serializations of html5, I use
>     html5/html
>     html5/xml
> and try to use html5 only for the abstract model, not the syntax.
>
>
Yes I know that the X was supposed to stand for extensible. But in 
reality I think it has come to stand for XML. And this makes a lot more 
sense as it is the serialisation of the language that really is the 
difference between HTML and XHTML.

-- 
Dean Edridge
http://www.zealmedia.co.nz/

Received on Friday, 31 August 2007 04:46:59 UTC