- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 16:45:06 +0200
- To: Lauren Wood <lauren@softquad.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
* Lauren Wood wrote on www-dom@w3.org:
>> The DOM Level 2 HTML Recommendation clearly states, that it doesn't
>> apply to XHTML documents. This makes it impossible to use convenience
>> features like HTMLCollections or the document.write() method in XHTML
>> documents. I'm advertising the use of XHTML but this shortcoming is a
>> strong argument against using XHTML, since a lot of people consider DOM
>> scripting rather important for common web pages.
>>
>> What is the DOM WG planning to do for XHTML documents?
>
>The HTML WG took over responsibility for the XHTML DOM some
>months ago, so you should probably ask them. The reason was
>that the DOM WG should concentrate on generic XML, and leave
>the DOMs for specialised schemas to the relevant WGs, who
>understand what their schema needs. This applies to SVG,
>MathML, and also HTML. The HTML DOM was a special case that
>the DOM WG worked on for historical reasons.
Ok, so we are at www-html@w3.org :-)
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