- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 12:27:26 -0500
James Graham wrote: > I'm totally lost about your point. You seem to have changed from saying > "producing valid XML is easy - any non-bozo can do it" to "well it's not > easy but the tools will save us all". The allow me to summarize. There are two basic classes of web authors 1. Those who prefer to hand author HTML in text editors and are competent to produce well-formed XHTML. 2. Those who do not have the level of skill necessary to hand author HTML in a text editor, and therefore must use tools. I do not believe in the existence of a significantly large third category of users who have the skill to hand author tag soup in a text editor, but who are not able to easily learn the few simple rules for making markup well-formed. There's also of course a fourth category of people who build content management systems and blogging engines; i.e. tool vendors. Surely we can agree these people are capable of producing well-formed output, whether or not they choose to do so. How to motivate them to do so is a different question. Also, let me once again distinguish between well-formed and valid. I'm happy once the document is well-formed. Valid I can live without. -- ?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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