Head-Body Design Pattern

Hi,

In the thread on renaming the html element type 
(http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2005Nov/0061.html), Sjoerd 
Visscher wrote:
<blockquote>
I see only one good reason to change this, and that is to get rid of the 
html/head/body structure. The latest WD makes a big step towards putting 
meta data in the content. This makes it possible to drop the head completely.
</blockquote>

It is not necessary to get rid of the head, just because it is possible to 
do this. Some people may want a clean separation between metadata and 
content, as described in the Head-Body design pattern 
(http://www.xmlpatterns.com/HeadBodyMain.shtml). If there are use cases for 
this pattern, why prevent people from using it?

Regards,

Christophe Strobbe


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Received on Monday, 14 November 2005 10:46:36 UTC