- From: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:35:54 +0200
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- CC: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, TAG List <www-tag@w3.org>
On 06/09/2010 01:21 PM, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > The TAG has reviewed the editor's draft "HTML/XHTML Compatibility > Authoring Guidelines" > http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-xhtml-author-guide/html-xhtml-authoring-guide.html > > as retreived 2010-06-09 CVS rev 1.14 > We welcome this effort and have a few suggestions as follows. > > 1. The document should be couched as a specification. It specifies a > set of documents, defined by various constraints, most (though not > all, because of the constraints on what scripts do) of which can be > checked by a validator. (This is useful spec, even though of course > there are many types of document which are not exactly as defined > which also have interesting properties). I don't think it makes sense to make this document normative on that basis. The allowed content of a polyglot document is purely inferred from other, already normative, texts. Giving the same status to the underlying rules and the inferred rules seems like a recipe for trouble since one is effectively defining the same thing in multiple places.
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