- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 18:10:42 +0300
On Jun 2, 2006, at 17:28, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > 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.) Are you referring to fantasai and me? I am not doing anything with DTDs. AFAIK, fantasai isn't working on DTDs, either, currently. There have been forward-looking statements about DTD or XSD versions of the schema generated from the RELAX NG master. Considering the level of RELAX NG-specific features used in the schema, I'd expect Trang-generated DTDs and XSDs to be rather imprecise. Moreover, personally, I don't like the idea of generating DTDs, because it would encourage people to use doctypes and would give them a false sense of security (after validation against an imprecise DTD). >> it is better to know in advance whether normative DTD is required >> or not > > It's not. More precisely, (X)HTML5 will not have a normative schema of any kind. The English prose is normative. Furthermore, letting schemas affect the design of the language doesn't go down well with Hixie. (Yes, I tried after all. :-) That said, considering my sunk cost in contributing to the RELAX NG schema, I'd appreciate it if the language did not gain features that are too crazy for RELAX NG + Schematron. :-) > You do need to know how to write it though... Need to know how to write a normative DTD??? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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