- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:45:14 +1000
- To: Raphaël Troncy <Raphael.Troncy@cwi.nl>
- Cc: Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>, Media Fragment <public-media-fragment@w3.org>
2009/8/22 Raphaël Troncy <Raphael.Troncy@cwi.nl>: > Dear Silvia, > >> Ah, excellent. Thanks. I'm happy to adapt the one I used to this >> unless there are objections. > > I do *not* object :-) Silvia, could you update both the Syntax wiki page and > the spec doc in the cvs? I have also added this item on our agenda for next > week telecon, so we could all endorse this change. > >> BTW: I think HTML5 does not believe in ABNF. They also do not believe >> in DTD or XML schema specifications. They just want text. I think >> that's unfortunate, but that's just me. :-) > > Strange! There is added value of having a formal grammar for syntax, and > especially for developers who can get parsers automatically generated from > the grammar. I'm told that formal grammar cannot capture all of the HTML5 rules, so it's seen as useless to try. Cheers, Silvia.
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