- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 22:36:23 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Anton Frattaroli wrote: > > Allowing XML namespaces to be "inserted" into HTML5 is a neat feature, > but challenges its definition as a subset of XML. As others have noted, HTML5 in text/html isn't XML. If you want to use HTML5 with XML you have to use XHTML5, which does require you to declare your namespaces, as per the XML specification. > Mixing markup languages also makes the DOCTYPE declaration pretty much > null and void. What's the point of a DTD if you're going to add in > other DTDs? We don't have DTDs in HTML5. > This is really challenging the whole direction the w3c has pointed out > for SGML. HTML5 doesn't use SGML at all. HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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