- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 05:57:34 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Mike Brown wrote: > > In section 1.4 (Terminology), this is troublesome: "The term HTML > documents is sometimes used in contrast with XML documents to mean > specifically documents that were parsed using an HTML parser (as opposed > to using an XML parser or created purely through the DOM)." > > I don't like the idea of a term as important and ubiquitous as "HTML > documents" having a variable meaning in a specification, especially one > that's about that very topic. I suggest nailing down more precise > terminology so there is no ambiguity and no need to warn the reader. I don't really know what other term to use. Suggestions are welcome, though be aware that this would be quite a difficult change to make so unless the suggestions are really much better than what we have now, I'd rather not make the change. > Also, perhaps I'm not clear on just how drastic the changes in HTML 5 > are (I'm only commenting on random things that caught my eye, at the > moment), but it seems counter to my previous experience to imply that an > HTML document cannot be created "purely through the DOM". If you call implementation.createDocument() you get back an XML document, not an HTML document. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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