- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:28:40 +0200
Quoting White Lynx <whitelynx at operamail.com>: >> So WHATWG doesn't really care about DTDs. (There are two people >> involved with that though for validating.) > > This is important issue, because requirement to keep DTD accurate > imposes certain > constraints on markup (for example DTD fails to catch errors like > <a href="#top"><span><a href="#bottom">link</a></span></a>) > therefore it is better to know in advance whether normative DTD is required > or not (Relax NG could be more suitable as it admits more accurate > content models then DTD). It's not. You do need to know how to write it though... >> What's needed for a specification is error handling, how it >> interoperates with existing >> HTML, etc. > > All efforts will be made to keep markup clean and consistent, to > avoid conflicts between > presentational HTML elements and math oriented elements and to > specify allowed nesting of elements properly. You need to specify what happens when people don't do it "properly." Besides designing the actual language, that's probably the hardest bit. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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