Re: mixed signals on "Writing HTML documents", tutorial, etc.

On Jun 19, 2007, at 00:04, Dan Connolly wrote:

> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
...
> The xmlns declaration is a mouthful, but it makes processing
> with XSLT/XPath straightforward.

Several WG participants (including me) are working on HTML5 parsing  
libraries that will make HTML5 XSLT/XPath-friendly without namespace  
declarations and without using an XML parser. At the moment, it is  
reasonable to speculate that these libraries will be mature long  
before teaching HTML5 to authors becomes topical.

-- 
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/

Received on Tuesday, 19 June 2007 07:12:34 UTC