- From: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:23:59 +0000
- To: Markdown List <public-markdown@w3.org>
On 20 November 2012 13:34, Shane McCarron <ahby@aptest.com> wrote: > Earlier people mentioned polyglot markup and it seemed to scare others. > Polyglot is an HTML5-introduced term for something we defined way back when > for XHTML 1.0. It just means markup that is valid XHTML and also works well > in HTML user agents. The current generation polyglot spec is at > http://www.w3.org/TR/html-polyglot/ > > In my mind it is trivial to have MD output polyglot - and it means it is > readily parseable in an XML toolchain if someone wants to do something cool > with the output. Is there a schema against which output could be generated? If it's html5, I'd suggest it is not firm as yet, hence currently out of scope? regards > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 20 November 2012 13:19, Shane McCarron <ahby@aptest.com> wrote: >> >> >> I really don't think a processing chain is within spec for the group >> >> Shane? Do you? >> > >> > >> > No. I was just saying that we could define one for our own internal use >> > if >> > we wanted to author the spec in MD but still produce W3C-appropriate >> > (X)HTML >> > output. >> >> Karl has kindly offered to do that for us, but agreed, it would >> perhaps be of use for others. >> another advantage of generating xhtml as apposed to html? >> >> regards >> >> >> >> -- >> Dave Pawson >> XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. >> Docbook FAQ. >> http://www.dpawson.co.uk >> > > > > -- > Shane P. McCarron > Managing Director, Applied Testing and Technology, Inc. > -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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