- From: Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:56:39 -0500
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>, public-html@w3.org, public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 01:43:12PM -0500, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 11/17/09 1:40 PM, John Cowan wrote: >> Nothing prevents browsers from doing so today. > > The XML spec does, last I checked... As John Cowan has said, that's not actually true. To amplify a little... the XML Spec says (in essence) that software that takes something (anything at all) that is not well-formed XML, can turn it into XML, but, if it does, it must not claim that the original input was XML. If a document is not well-formed, the XML specification does not apply to it - it's not XML. If a Web browser makes an XML DOM, however, it must find a way to mark the DOM so that an application (and the browser internals) can tell the input wasn't XML. Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ * http://www.fromoldbooks.org/
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