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Hi Aaron,

HTML 5's predecessor didn't have IDL definitions, instead they were written with SGML or XML Document Type Definitions - DTDs. This meant they were defined in terms of conformant markup, rather than interfaces. WebIDL has been in development for a decade. Version 1 became a stable recommendation last year, and there is ongoing work.

HTML 5 doesn't define a clear IDL. HTML 5.1 has an index - https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/idl-index.html - written using WebIDL.

As far as I know, nobody has done the task of trying to retroactively provide an IDL definition for HTML 5. It is unlikely the Web Platform group would take this on as a formal deliverable, although if a group member did it and asked the group to publish it as a Note that might be worthwhile since it is well within the group's chartered scope of work.

The HTML 5.1 specification is licensed pretty liberally, and getting permission from W3C to use content from the HTML 5 specification in the same way should be just a question of writing an email and asking. Does the HML 5.1 license meet your requirements?

I have cc'ed the W3C legal team, so they can anticipate such a request.

cheers

Chaals

30.01.2017, 04:19, "Aaron Gray" <aaronngray.lists@gmail.com>:

Are there any canical IDL definitions for HTML 5, its predecessors and sucessors. I am doing a ground up framework and need full IDL definitions for HTML 5 and XHTML, and older standards please.

The only ones I can find are those scattered in W3C documents and those providied by Microsoft in XML provided to the TypeScript project which are tainted.

Regards,

Aaron Gray

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