Re: DRAFT response to Comment about documents with an "empty DTD"

On 2014-01-28 05:19, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> On 27.1.2014 23:31, Paul Grosso wrote:
>> If you have any thoughts or reservations, please comment.
>>
>> HTML5 is not XML, and it can make its own rules about how
>> documents should be processed. Admittedly, if a tool is
>> using an XML processor to process an HTML5 document, it
>> should probably not use validation mode, but that is not
>> something for the XML spec to address.
> HTML5 has two serializations HTML and XML, so we might adjust this
> paragraph to apply only to HTML serialization. We can add that for
> XHTML5 it's up to the tool to choose validation/non-validation mode, but
> again given that there is no DTD for XHTML5 it's not useful to use
> validating mode.
>
>     Jirka
>


So should I say "XHTML5 is not XML"?

I understand that there are two parsing modes for HTML5,
but even when considering the XML mode, my point is that
the XML spec need/should not say anything about how HTML5
processing tools should work.

paul

Received on Tuesday, 28 January 2014 14:37:46 UTC