Re: The HTML Element

• From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
• Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 09:47:21 +0100 (BST)
• To: www-html@w3.org
• Message-Id: <200306150847.h5F8lLN11838@djwhome.demon.co.uk>

> No it wouldn't. The name "root" would be scoped to a namespace.

But using such a low information content name really amounts to a
proposal that there not be root level element tags in XML, because
the tag name will always be the same.  If you have a tag name, it really
ought to reflect the nature of the document, not just that it is the
root element.  (The root element tag can carry attributes, of course.)

> XHTML2 has no such limitation and could very well use "xhtml" as the 
> root element GI.

I could have some sympathy with this, but it wouldn't mean that XHTML uses
xhtml as it's root element, but only that some versions of it do.

Received on Sunday, 15 June 2003 04:47:25 UTC