Lachlan Hunt wrote on 08/27/2008 10:41:55 PM: > > Sam Ruby wrote: > > It occurs to me that if somebody were to do the work of producing a full > > DTD for XHTML5, such work could be considered by this workgroup either to > > be included in the HTML 5 standard, or as a standalone document. > > Anyone is free to write a DTD, or any other schema, for (X)HTML 5. One > was begun a long time ago, but was abandoned [1], and there's one for > RNG too [2]. However, there should be no official DTD any other > official schema for HTML5. "should" and "official" are something that we could debate. Luckily, the issue is largely moot as I doubt that anybody has the interest and wherewithal to produce and actively maintain such a DTD. But if such were to materialize, I could see the W3C publishing such as a an document, even if the WHATWG were to decline to do so. > [1] http://syntax.whatwg.org/ > [2] http://syntax.whattf.org/ > > -- > Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software > http://lachy.id.au/ > http://www.opera.com/ - Sam Ruby
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