- From: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:36:02 +0000
- To: Markdown List <public-markdown@w3.org>
On 20 November 2012 16:28, Shane McCarron <ahby@aptest.com> wrote: > Sure - there are good schema for XHTML 1.1 and HTML 4. My (admittedly > biased) preference would be for XHTML 1.1 with suitable limitations so it > just works in an HTML 4/5 user agent. I agree that we cannot rely upon any > HTML5 extensions in basic specification. HTML5 has not yet even entered > last call - it is stabilizing, but not stable. OK, We need a formal definition of a (likely first?) output transform. Suggest XHTML 1.1 I'll add that to the wiki. > > If people are open to my ARIA suggestions, then there is a XHTML+ARIA schema > out there we could use. URL please Shane. regards > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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 >> > > > > -- > 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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