- From: Chris Chiasson <chris@chiasson.name>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:54:28 -0500
- To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, whatwg@whatwg.org, public-html@w3.org, www-math@w3.org, www-svg@w3.org
+1 for Jirka's idea On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > > Now, even given all this, some people still want an extensibility > mechanism for proprietary extensions. For this, we have XML, which is > intended to just be a generic syntax. It is quite difficult to make a > generic syntax out of text/html, due to the legacy content out there. I go > into more detail on this in some of the replies below. > > > > Ian, at first many thanks for creating such exhaustive analysis. > > But I have to say, that I still don't see advantages of implanting SVG, > MathML and user defined data into HTML serialization. This will make parsing > even more complex, additional constraints on SVG and MathML content in HTML > must be obeyed, etc. This will not simplify anything, it will just make HTML > syntax and parsing bigger mess. > > While not simply allow such features only in XML serialization where XML > namespaces could do the job without introducing any new features? HTML > serialization will remain easier and will be there for handling legacy stuff > and for people who want to create simple webpages without worrying about > missing closed tag. But if anyone wants by hand create MathML, SVG, user > defined markup he/she is for sure enough capable to work also with XML > syntax. > > Jirka > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://xmlguru.cz > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Professional XML consulting and training services > DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 member > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- http://chris.chiasson.name/
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