Re: Support for XHTML5

On Fri, 2015-12-04 at 09:50 -0500, Robin Berjon wrote:
> On 03/12/2015 19:15 , Liam R. E. Quin wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 15:20 -0500, Robin Berjon wrote:
> > >  Were we to
> > > use XHTML for EPUB 3 alignment then we should also use epub:type
> > > instead of role,
> > 
> > Why? There's no reason you can't process a role attribute in XSLT.
> 
> Because EPUB 3 use epub:type for what role is being proposed for
> nowadays.

So really what you are saying is whether to use EPUB3 or not, and
that's a different question about whether to use syntax that's XML
compatible.

I'm not pushing for one or another, but wanted to understand why you
felt the use of XHTML would require the use of epub:type  - it doesn't.

Thanks.

Liam

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Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org>
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Received on Friday, 4 December 2015 19:31:39 UTC