- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:19:42 +0200
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>
- CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, 'HTML WG' <public-html@w3.org>, public-html-request@w3.org
Sam Ruby wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote on 08/02/2008 03:45:19 PM: > > > > The syntax for a self-closing element is for the element to be > immediately > > followed by a close tag, for example, what in proprietary XML might be > > written as: > > > > <foo xmlns="http://example.com/" /> > > > > ...can be written in HTML5 as: > > > > <div class="com.example.foo"></div> > > Other than the fact that I would suggest span over div, this approach > does meet the requirements I laid out. > > It doesn't have the benefit of field experience (in the devil you know > vs the devil you don't know), but it would seem to work. As a matter of fact, it does not work, as it wouldn't be able to both represent and disambiguate all namespace names that may occur in XHTML. > Of course, the usuability of such an approach sucks, which I gather is > the point of the proposal. Right. BR, Julian
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