- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 17:26:11 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Christopher Hoess <choess@stwing.upenn.edu>
- Cc: "me@aaronsw.com" <me@aaronsw.com>, "www-archive@w3.org" <www-archive@w3.org>
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Christopher Hoess wrote: > > 2) Hixie, I'm not sure why you assert that "one of the primary goals of > XML's development" was to ensure that documents are valid. One of the > important things WebSGML/XML achieved, it seems to me, is decoupling > well-formedness from validity, so that one doesn't need to build a > full-blown content model in order to parse an XML document. My bad. s/valid/well-formed/. > My personal perspective on the issue is that since namespaces are verboten > in text/html, there is, as Hixie says, really nothing in XHTML-as- > text/html that you can't get from HTML 4.01. And XHTML adds the additional > burden of a number of compatibility guidelines, compliance with which I > can't determine through validation. In general, it seems like an exercise > in futility and buzzword-compliance. (What was that about chasing after > bleeding edge technologies that don't solve real world problems?) Hear hear! -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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