- From: Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer <sebastian@dreamlab.net>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:14:51 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
Hello HTML WG, I would like to kick start discussion on whether or not it is beneficial to think in terms of Best of all Worlds, including HTML5, Web Forms 2.0, XHTML 1.0, Modularization of XHTML, XHTML 2 and XForms. The way I see it is that what happened here at W3C recently is like a merger between two competing companies with two competing products. While both companies tried to define themselves as being "anti" the other, shortly after the merger this mindset still exists, but slowly fades aways in favour of a synergy strategy enabling a better product for the customer. For us, I think a lot has been defined "as opposed to" the other technology. We're all W3C now. The XML story of the W3C is coming along in the market. For example, yesterday Kurt Cagle wrote on XML.com: "I find it increasingly difficult not to work with XForms, to be honest, even given some of the complexities involved in different implementations. With XForms, you can build the data model XML on the client side, send it up to an XQuery that will validate and process it, and then this object can in turn be passed off to a transformation to generate another XForms instance, an XHTML report, or an SVG chart of some sort. XSLT2 works well in building such input templates, again giving you fine-grain conditional control and the establishment of interface capabilities. I think the "X" model - XQuery + XSLT2 + XHTML + XForms - will likely prove a potent one in the future." http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/03/21/the-future-of-xslt-20.html?page=2 - Sebastian
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