Re: ReSpec: Intent to depracate XHTML 1.0 save support

As I mentioned in the relevant PR, I think this is a bad idea.  There are a
number of specs that were produced using XHTML 1, and if any of them need
an update for errata of whatnot in the future, it will be impossible to do
simply.

On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Marcos Caceres <marcos@marcosc.com> wrote:

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> On May 16, 2016 at 12:13:39 PM, Marcos Caceres (marcos@marcosc.com) wrote:
> > Hi,
> > XHTML 1.0 has been long deprecated in favor of XHTML5. In ReSpec,
> > we've been allowing folks to save as XHTML 1.0, but I'm wondering if
> > we can retire that capability?
> >
> > Can anyone think of any valid reason to keep it around? It seems
> > harmful, as saving to a conforming XHTML 1.0 doc means we strip out
> > useful structuring tags and aria attributes.
>
> Relevant bug:
> https://github.com/w3c/respec/issues/760
>
>


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