- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:38:54 -0400
- To: public-html@w3.org
- CC: www-svg@w3.org
Hi, Rob-
Rob Sayre wrote (on 3/16/09 8:57 PM):
> On 3/16/09 8:31 PM, Doug Schepers wrote:
>> T.V Raman wrote (on 3/16/09 12:58 PM):
>>> And this is why in gneral, it would be a good idea for
>>> show-source to perhaps show a cleaned-up serialization, rather
>>> than the original tag-soup that was authored.
>>
>> I think everyone is on board with this idea, not just for SVG and
>> MathML, but even for HTML... if someone out there has a good rationale
>> against it, I'd be curious to know what that is.
>
> If you concatenate two HTML documents, you still get an HTML document.
> If you concatenate two XML documents, you don't get an XML document.
>
> This is just one example of XML's incompatibility with cut and paste,
> and string concatenation in general.
>
> In other words, it won't work.
I guess that depends on your definition of document. This:
<fooML>
<blah />
</fooML>
<barML>
<baz>
<fweep/>
</baz>
</barML>
Would have 2 document roots, I suppose, but could be contained in the
same file, and could be output that way.
Maybe I'm not understanding you?
Regards-
-Doug Schepers
W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs
Received on Tuesday, 17 March 2009 01:39:10 UTC