- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 07:25:39 -0500
Henri Sivonen wrote: > I think putting subtrees rooted at <svg> or <math> in the SVG and MathML > namespaces respectively (and allowing /> to close elements while the > tokenizer is looking at such a subtree) would be more forward-compatible > with future SVG and MathML revisions. (Subtrees rooted at children of > SVG <foreignObject> and MathML <annotation-xml> would be put in the > XHTML namespace.) Another important consideration: SVG and MathML are more likely to be produced by some form of tool than by direct editing in a text editor. (No that you can't do that, of course; but BBEdit's no substitute for Illustrator.) These tools already exist, and they already use the empty-element tag syntax and namespace attributes. I doubt these tools would like to change to support two different serialization formats. -- ?Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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