Re: The HTML Element

Simon Jessey wrote:

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>From: "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>
>Subject: Re: The HTML Element
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>>>XHTML 1.0 has to use html to allow HTML user agents to use it.
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>>XHTML2 has no such limitation and could very well use "xhtml" as the
>>root element GI.
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>I would argue that changing the root element to "xhtml" for XHTML 2.0 would
>be an excellent idea, because it would help to discourage authors from
>writing a mixture of HTML and XHTML 2.0. Such hybrid documents would be that
>last thing we would want, as it would most likey lead to user agents that
>would try to make sense of them. I see XHTML 2.0 very much as an alternative
>to XHTML 1.0, indeed I would consider renaming it to avoid confusion. How
>about HXML or HTXML or AML (as Jeffrey Zeldman suggested)?
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>Simon Jessey
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I'd say it should be xhtml. Not HXML, HTXML, or AML because it's XHTML. 
Using one of the others would be just like it being html in a sense.
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