- From: Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:57:46 -0500
- To: Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net>
- Cc: public-html WG <public-html@w3.org>, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CANr5HFW5wJT6tfCt_W84yPGiOK-cYg5AQetufOJFAuXNC65KVw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net> wrote: > Alex, > > Le 24 janv. 2013 à 17:14, Alex Russell a écrit : > > who benefits from the creation of polyglot documents? > > I'm not sure I have the answer, but let's share a personal use case. To be > honest I'm not sure it is entirely in the polyglot paradigm, but first of > all: > > > I don't understand why that ecosystem doesn't protect its borders by > transforming HTML documents (via an HTML parser->DOM->XML serialization) to > XML. > > complexity and knowledge/habits with regards to one techno. > > Now for my own use case (not mainstream, very specific and honestly, it's > working for me as it is without really being polyglot). > > In the spirit of bake not fried, I serve static files. The Web site is > managed off the grid with scripts on my local computer. All the files are > in "HTML5 with a king of xhtml syntax" no empty elements, double quotes. > This allows me two very simple things: > > * a poor man well-formed check in the browser when I'm editing the > document. (application/xhtml+xml) > What is well-formedness buying you that devtools, linting, or visual inspection don't? > * a possibility to use an xml toolchain to parse the document and produces > a few things such as a feed, etc. > But can't you still do this with an HTML document and a front for your XML pipeline that transforms it first? domjs under node, etree.HTML in python...i could keep going. I don't see how the transformation argument demands XML in the source document. > then when the document is synced online, I can just serve it as text/html > > As I said, not a point on promoting polyglot, just an explanation > (triggered by your comment) on why some people may use both content-types > at the level of the document itself. > Thanks. Much appreciated. > /me is returning to the evasnescence of internet limbos. > > > -- > Karl Dubost, a Web opener to hire > http://www.la-grange.net/karl/ > >
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