Re: Choosing a name for the HTML5 XML serialization, was: The only name for the xml serialisation of html5

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Julian Reschke wrote:
> 
> - If the HTML WG thinks that the name is not important, then, it seems, 
> the right way to address this is to stop using it and make the XHTML WG 
> happy.

We covered this option in the e-mail to which you replied:

   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Oct/0386.html


> - But as far as I recall, the much more interesting question is what 
> namespace to use, right?

The namespace is a separate issue, but actually it's a very simple issue. 
We have no choice whatsoever on what namespace to use -- in order to 
continue being compatible with legacy content and legacy user agents, we 
are forced to use "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml". (That's unfortunate, 
because having a year in a namespace is IMHO poor design, but oh well.)

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