- From: Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 14:02:18 +0000
- To: public-html@w3.org
Lachlan Hunt writes: > Subject to the condition that the spec clearly states that everything > else in the document is non-normative, I would be satisfied with a > normative definition of the term "polyglot markup" (or similar) as > being markup that conforms with the intersection of the HTML and XHTML > serialisations, such that the markup meets the following constraints: > > 1. Conforms to the syntactic requirements of the HTML serialisation > 2. Conforms to the syntactic requirements of the XHTML serialisation > (including well-formedness) > 3. Results in a *conforming document* when parsed with either an HTML or > XML parser > 4. Results in equivalent tree representations (e.g. DOM) when parsed > using either HTML or XML parsers, subject to the known exceptions > for: > a. xml, xmlns and xlink namespaced attributes, > b. Any insignificant differences in the value of textContent > for script and style elements. > c. Any semantically insignificant whitespace differences. Thanks. It sounds like we may be able to get consensus (or at least a lack of formal objections) around that. So long as the definition is normative, Jirka isn't bothered about the rest of the spec not being normative: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Nov/0054.html David Carlisle made a different suggestion but didn't actually object: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Nov/0059.html Cheers Smylers -- New series of TV puzzle show 'Only Connect' (some questions by me) Mondays at 20:30 on BBC4, or iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/onlyconnect
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