- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:01:59 +0200
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Cc: HTML Data Task Force WG <public-html-data-tf@w3.org>, RDFa WG <public-rdfa-wg@w3.org>
* Ivan Herman wrote: >On Oct 27, 2011, at 11:07 , Henri Sivonen wrote: >[[[ >If the input is labeled using an XML type, use the implicit but nowhere >normatively defined mapping from XML source to a document tree. >]]] > >If the media type is application/xml+xhtml or application/xml+svg, I can >use an XML parser (as opposed to a HTML5 parser) to produce a DOM tree >on which one can (conceptually) operate, including the >element-by-element decision on some specificities bound to the the media >type. And yes, if that XML parser fails then the whole process fails. It's a popular trolling meme to run around and tell people that if you have a HTML document and want to turn that into a DOM Document, that's a well-documented process, but doing the same with XML documents, that is not so well-documented, there is much uncertainty about it. The two of you have the same process in mind, Henri Sivonen just thought it im- portant to draw everybody's attention to this meme. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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