- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:55:40 -0400
- To: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Cc: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>, micro xml <public-microxml@w3.org>
Liam R E Quin scripsit:
> The HTML 5 approach is a possibility - e.g. Anne's xml5 parsing
> proposal. Downsides -
> . µXML documents would not usually be XML documents
> . µXML documents would typically be full of errors, if the tools
> silently "corrected" them
> . autocorrection isn't a good thing in all contexts.
What is more (as I have been saying at every opportunity), HTML
autocorrection works because we know what the semantics of the tags and
attributes are. In XML, we have no clue which elements are supposed to
go where, so we can't effectively correct it without schema information.
--
Almost all theorems are true, John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
but almost all proofs have bugs. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
--Paul Pedersen
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