Re: XHTML/XML comment

>
>You've got to be kidding.  There are millions of HTML pages that
>exist ...   How many CGI
>scripts exist that will not parse &.

The CGI script will never see the & It is the browser's 
responsibility to parse the XML and send a correct request.

Regards,
Nir.

At 09:58 PM 1/30/00 -0500, Vidiot wrote:
>I just printed the XHTML 1.0 document and an floored by the
>following:
>
>   4.2 Element and attribute names must be in lower case.
>   4.3 For non-empty elements, end tags are required.
>   4.4 Attribute values must always be quoted.
>   4.6 Empty Elements.
>   C.12 Using Ampersands in Attribute Values
>
>You've got to be kidding.  There are millions of HTML pages that
>exist that use case insensitive elements and attribute.  Same
>thing applies to elements like BASE and BR.  How many CGI
>scripts exist that will not parse &.
>
>Guess I won't be using XHTML/XML any time in the near future.
>I'll be damned if I am going to go through the 59,524 HTML
>pages the I currently have and make them XHTML compliant.
>I do try and do 4.4, but all of my documents are not perfect
>in that regard.  I prefer CAPS for elements for readability,
>as I HAND EDIT all of my HTML documents using asWedit.
>
>I am totally confused as to why the W3C would go the over-the-top
>restrictive route.  How are you going to convince people to use
>XHMTL with so many restrictions?  You certainly haven't convinced
>me that I should change.  To tell millions of people who create
>web pages that "by the way, forget everything you ever knew about
>making web pages" is not going to go over very well at all.
>
>Of course, what I wrote above is personal opinion.  But, I am one
>of millions of web page creators and I am not impressed with
>XHTML/XML at all.
>
>I'll be dead before I go the XHTML route.
>
>Mike Brown
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Received on Monday, 31 January 2000 09:53:19 UTC