- From: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>
- Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:15:27 -0500
- To: Jan Egil Kristiansen <janegil@landsbank.fo>, www-html@w3.org
At 4:14 PM +0000 12/8/04, Jan Egil Kristiansen wrote: >I'd like a DOCTYPE to make it possible to validate XHTML with >well-formed extensions from any other namespace. > >See http://styrheim.weblogg.no/081204103845_the_x_in_xhtml.html One good place to start learning about the work that is ongoing in the W3C in this area would be the work of David Orchard for the TAG, in particular the three links provided in: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2004Dec/0000.html The Technical Plenary 2004 session on experience with mixed namespaces is also instructive: http://www.w3.org/2004/03/plenary-minutes#Session4 Down the road, you should also watch the progress of the compound documents working group: http://www.w3.org/2004/CDF/ The formation of this group gives evidence that this is an important, and under-solved problem. I don't think that they are going to produce anything of the sweeping generality that you asked for, but what they do produce is likely to be helpful for your actual problem. Al
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