Re: extension of markdown files

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
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>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > 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.
>



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