DOM WG comments on latest XHTML draft

The DOM WG has read section C.11 of the XHTML draft found at
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Group/1999/xhtml1-19990727/

We have one concern with this. The draft states:
"2.Applications that access XHTML documents served as Internet 
media types text/html, text/xml, application/xml can also use the 
XML DOM. Elements and attributes will be returned in lower-case."

This is actually incorrect. XHTML documents served as text/html 
will not be able (necessarily) to access XML features such as PIs, 
and elements will be returned in upper-case, and attributes using 
the casing specified in the Level 1 HTML DOM (where it is 
specified). If you delete the text/html from the list of media types, 
then that will fix the problem.

regards,


Lauren

Received on Wednesday, 18 August 1999 15:04:49 UTC