- From: Tim Bagot <tsb-w3-html-000A@earth.li>
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 07:36:10 +0000 (UTC)
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
- Cc: Ernest Cline <ernestcline@mindspring.com>, <www-html-editor@w3.org>
[Taking out www-style, as this is off-topic there.] At 2003-04-04T07:29+0100, Toby A Inkster wrote:- > On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:52:14AM -0500, Ernest Cline wrote: > | If there > | were no earlier (X)HTML standards, I think that separator model would > | be clearly the superior. If XHTML2 was not already engaged in the > | pruning of existing (X)HTML elements, then markup elements would > | clearly be the preferred choice. However, the earlier standards do > | exist and XHTML2 is pruning a significant number of (X)HTML elements, > | meaning that the choice must be made on another basis. > > An argument against it is this. Your &ls; entity would be effectively > and semantically the same as <br/> which is one of the elements we're > actively tring to get rid of! And another: Not everything in (X)HTML is inside a paragraph. Some elements can appear inside or outside of a paragraph. Using just paragraph separators, it is *impossible* to determine whether such an element is part of a paragraph or not, unless you impose an otherwise unnecessary restriction on exactly where they can be. Tim Bagot
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