Re: Choosing name for XML serialization (Was: Re: HTML5 differences from HTML4 editor's draft (XHTML5 and XHTML2))

On 6/23/07, Craig Francis <craig@synergycms.com> wrote:
>    HTML-XML5
>
> This is using the same theory behind naming FTPS and SFTP, where both
> are two different systems.
>

The RDF community has had a similar issue since RDF can be serialized
in a number of ways. Hence RDF/XML, RDF/N3, RDF/Turtle and RDF/TriX...

On that basis, why not 'HTML/XML 5' for the XML serialization and
'HTML 5' for the non-XML serialization?

Since the HTML 5 specification currently discourages authors from
using the XML serialization, it would make little practical difference
to the page author whether it's called XHTML5 or HTML/XML 5. It would
help prevent confusion with the W3C's XHTML 1.0/1.1/2.0 effort though.

-- 
Tom Morris
http://tom.opiumfield.com/blog/

Received on Saturday, 23 June 2007 20:45:01 UTC