- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:44:18 +0100
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
Henri Sivonen, Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:33:26 +0200: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Leif Halvard Silli: >> Are you aware that XHTML 1.0 Appendix C did *not* support >> that kind of flagging? On the contrary! >> >> Of course, for *end* tags, then XHTML 1.0 validation did of course >> catch such errors. But for auto-generated elements, like <tbody>, >> then, as noted in the PolyglotRecommendationRationale, XHTML 1.0 >> required *XML parsers* to adapt (which is directly opposed to the >> identical DOM principle): > > There are many cases where people expect XHTML to solve a problem for > them and it doesn’t *really*. Hence polyglot. :-) And, in the above example, the problem (or the solution) isn’t the XML, but the DTD. -- Leif Halvard Silli
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