- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 02:34:28 +0200
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
Henri Sivonen, Mon, 17 May 2010 01:57:40 -0700 (PDT): > "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> wrote: >> I think what Leif would like is some way to indicate in-document that >> the document should be edited in polyglot mode so that all editors >> would automatically do that. +1 > It's unclear to me what the use case is. > > I'm aware of three use cases for polyglot documents: > > 1) Serving [...] > 2) Serving |...] > 3) Serving [....] > Leif, are there additional use cases that I'm missing? Authoring. Validation. Being able to offer validation quickly. Avoiding other versioning systems from develop. Note that I approach this not so much from the "are polyglot documents necessary" as from "are polyglot DOCTYPEs necessary". [... snippety ...] > In general, I get a feeling that polyglot documents have more > intellectual appeal as a spec lawyering puzzle than they have > practical usefulness. I think the WG shouldn't fall into the trap of > chasing puzzle appeal instead of Solving Real Problems. > > P.S. What does all this have to do with "versioning"? And "DOCTYPEs" > in this context looks to me like a (bad) solution in search of a > problem... Why does Mac OS X use use XML configuration files with Apple doctypes, if DOCTYPEs are useless? HTML5 says that it doesn't define any doctypes for the XML version of HTML5. However, if we define a polyglot profile of XHTML5/HTML5, and if we deem that a specific doctype for such a profile is necessary, then we need to express that this DOCTYPE is permitted inside the text/html MIME type. Note that what XHTML 1 in many ways were lacking, was a Appendix C Doctype. It might be that the simplest would have been if XHTML would only be authored in .xhtml files. But that is extremely far from how things look like "in the wild". -- leif halvard silli
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