RE: Sections for HTML local implementation?

FWIW:

I agree with Jirka.

Note that even if the user is dealing only with HTML documents s/he may have to work with the XML syntax anyway (linked rules).

-ys


-----Original Message-----
From: Jirka Kosek [mailto:jirka@kosek.cz] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 9:49 AM
To: Dave Lewis
Cc: public-multilingualweb-lt@w3.org
Subject: Re: Sections for HTML local implementation?

On 10.10.2012 16:09, Dave Lewis wrote:

> Would that work? We'd still need to look at the section 1-5 to make 
> sure that it doesn't favour XML over HTML, e.g. we have section 1.4 
> calling out usage in HTML5 while the usage in XML is more implicit, 
> also the examples in this earlier section are still largely XML rather than HTML.

Personally I think it is perfectly OK to favour XML over HTML in spec as long as spec provides clear definition on how to use ITS in HTML5. Given HTML limitations some things are complicated and sort of hack in HTML, so we don't have to pretend that HTML provides same support for ITS as XML.

    Jirka

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