- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 17:28:02 -0400
- To: stephengreenubl@gmail.com
- Cc: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>, Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net>, public-microxml@w3.org
On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 12:58 +0100, Stephen D Green wrote: > [...] > MicroXML > could allow parsers to preserve in its data model whether the markup > included > an empty element as <abc/> or as <abc></abc> or 2) maybe HTML would start > to treat them as equivalent. Web browsers have to continue to interpret existing content in the same way. The point of HTML 5 was to document current behaviour. HTML cannot, and will not be able to in the forseeable future, treat <br></br> as the same as <br>, because of existing content that assumes they are different. Similarly, we can't change XML in ways that would break either existing content or existing implementations - we've tried... So MicroXML has to work with the world as it is, not with the world as we'd like it to become... Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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