- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 20:27:51 +0100
- To: "'Richard Ishida'" <ishida@w3.org>, "'Eliot Graff'" <eliotgra@microsoft.com>, "'Henri Sivonen'" <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: <public-html@w3.org>, <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
> -----Original Message----- > From: public-i18n-core-request@w3.org [mailto:public-i18n-core- > request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Richard Ishida > Sent: 07 October 2010 20:40 ... > I guess I don't > yet understand why it's so hard for an HTML parser to recognise an XML > declaration for what it is and treat it appropriately, rather than assume that it > is a processing instruction. I know that an HTML parser has nothing to do > with XML declarations, and so in terms of language purity it doesn't belong, > but the HTML5 spec currently recognises xml:lang and xmlns attributes and > handles them, why can't we write the spec to do a similar thing with the XML > declaration?) Ok, I found a thread where this was discussed in detail around the end of July, but that I hadn't read before, and I think I now understand better the reasoning. RI ============ Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) http://www.w3.org/International/ http://rishida.net/
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