Re: Fwd: Polyglot Markup Formal Objection Rationale

Lachlan Hunt writes:

> I am asserting that it should not make normative statements regarding
> document conformance because it can, by definition, only describe the
> overlap of the HTML and XHTML serialisations.  All of the constraints
> descrived in it are inherently logical conclusions from the normative
> requirements in HTML5, and as such, do not need to be normatively
> defined twice.
> 
> The document should clarify that everything within it is
> non-normative.  Currently, only the introduction is labelled as
> such.

Lachlan, would you object to the Polyglot HTML spec normatively defining
the term "polyglot HTML" (or similar), if the definition were simply
that it's the intersection of text/html and XHTML, and if that were the
only thing that spec claimed to be normative about?

Cheers

Smylers
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