- From: Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 17:14:00 +0200
- To: public-html@w3.org
2007/7/6, Mynthon: > > Why isn't html5 using xml syntax? Because otherwise it would have been XHTML 1.2 ? ...and this WG wouldn't have had any reason to exist at all (there's a WG for XHTML 2). > look at this example: [...] > you cannot simply paste it into xml source (or use some kind of xml > parser) and then parse entire document, you have to close all tags > etc. When you have to put html code into bigger xml document it is > madness (not sparta). Use a tagsoup parser (e.g. Tidy) or an HTML5 parser (e.g. html5lib) to aprse the HTML and reserialize it as XML. > Difference between html and xml should be in parsing not in syntax. > Forcing html-users to write xml compatible code will be very big step > forward. I don't understand the difference. If browsers don't enforce XML wellformedness when parsing documents (and they won't), authors will continue to produce non-XML documents. In short: HTML is not XHTML. If you want XHTML, use a "converter". -- Thomas Broyer
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