- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 00:05:42 +0300
On Apr 6, 2005, at 15:10, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > Olav Junker Kj?r wrote: >> What is the benefit of having HTML defined as an application of SGML ? > > So that it may be processed with SGML tools, Can we focus on real use cases, please? Who would anyone want to use SGML tools (except perhaps for feel-good validation pending proper conformance checkers) now that tag soup tools and XML tools exist? > and possibly even generated using XSLT. An XSLT transformer is an XML tool--not an SGML tool. You can generate HTML 4 or What WG HTML using XSLT by writing your transformation to produce XHTML, taking SAX output from the transformer and using an HTML serializer at the end of the SAX pipeline. > Even if it is decided that HTML 5 is not formally an application of > SGML, it must at least remain fully compatible with SGML, and thus a > conformant HTML 5 document must be a conformant SGML document. At least I am still unconvinced about your "must". > XHTML variants of HTML 5 must be a conformant XML document instead, > though I noticed that is not the case with square brackets in ID > attributes in section 3.7.2 of WF2 That's not a problem if you don't claim they are ID attributes but attributes that happen to be named id. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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