- From: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:38:11 +0100
- To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- CC: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
John Cowan wrote: > James Graham scripsit: > >> The alternative I was alluding to is serving HTML rather than XML, thus >> neatly avoiding the whole issue. > > Remember that what I'm arguing against is the need for a general-purpose > XML with forgiving parsing (aka "XML5", though "SGML" would be a better > name), and why draconian parsing isn't a problem for general-purpose XML. > I'm not opposed to a forgiving language for displaying documents in browsers, > or I wouldn't be here at all. My understanding is that "XML5" would be primarilly designed around the needs of document formats on the web. It would not necessarily be suitable as a replacement for all existing XML 1.0 (of course it is possible that it would nevertheless achieve that, but it would not be a explicit design goal). Note that Anne did some work in this area already: http://code.google.com/p/xml5/
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