- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:52:44 +0200
- To: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Cc: HTMLWG Tracking WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Mar 17, 2008, at 05:27, Karl Dubost wrote: > Le 16 mars 2008 à 00:43, Henri Sivonen a écrit : >> I much prefer the alternative of doing just-in-time XML conversion >> if the need to actually have XML actualizes. > > Do you think it would be possible to have a mod_xml serializer as an > Apache module and IIS server plug-in. It would have an html 5 parser > and serialize it as XML on the fly (just in time). That's not what I meant. I meant things like: 1) Context menu Save Image As... for inline SVG subtrees. (Using an XML-compatible serializer.) 2) Context menu Show Selection Markup. (Serializing the selected DOM range using an XML-compatible serializer.) 3) Converting the page using a future version of html5lib, Validator.nu HTML parser, Twintsam or similar. As for putting #3 in an Apache module on the server, it would be doable in theory (some may even do it as a backwards-compat measure for XHTML+SVG browsers), but * Server-owners don't want to bear the cost of running more code per HTTP response on the server. * Getting people to install non-default Apache modules is hard. * It won't become a default module, because for the HTML part, silent conversion to XHTML would expose CSS and DOM behavior differences in a non-obvious way. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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