RE: The HTML Element from Matthew.van.Eerde@hbinc.com on 2003-09-09 (www-html@w3.org from September 2003)

From: <Matthew.van.Eerde@hbinc.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 08:51:35 -0700
To: www-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <B8B9965E9A4B1948839F37ADCB58E9D52D0E00@exchange.hbinc.com>

The root element of an XHTML document shouldn't be <xhtml> any more than the
root element of an XML document should be <xml>.  The root element of a
document is supposed to describe the purpose of that kind of document.  I
suggest <page> as a natural choice for the root element of a web page.

Received on Tuesday, 9 September 2003 11:52:18 UTC