[XHTML2] Embedding XML from Edward Lass on 2004-08-02 (www-html@w3.org from August 2004)

From: Edward Lass <elass@goer.state.ny.us>
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 09:51:05 -0400
To: <www-html@w3.org>
Message-Id: <s10e0eac.063@goer.state.ny.us>

One of the most common uses (read: abuses) of server-side scripts is to perform the simple task
of merging two HTML documents: typically a template including navigation, plus the page
content. Others use programs like Dreamweaver to accomplish the same goal on the author's
side.

The Embedding Attributes Module[1] briefly mentions the media type "application/xml" - is it
anticipated that user agents would allow XHTML 2.0 documents to embed other XHTML 2.0
documents? Extra navigation (i.e., a sidebar in conventional screen presentation) could be
embedded this way, instead of relying on PHP, ASP, etc.

- Ed.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-embedding.html#s_embeddingmodule

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