- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:15:21 +1300
- To: 'WWW International' <www-international@w3.org>
Brett Zamir wrote: > > Greetings all, > > I am not sure whether this may have been done before (I'd be surprised > if it hadn't), but since I haven't heard of it, here it goes... > > I wrote a preliminary XML language using Chinese characters to represent > the elements, attributes, and specified attribute values of XHTML--no > DTD or XML Schema yet--to be transformed by a XSLT sheet that I devised > (with translation help from my wife) into XHTML (or a modular variety > thereof). It manages to work fine (with a few nuances depending on > whether viewing in Explorer or Firefox), at least for the relatively > small files I've tested it on. This might be useful for authoring on the server side, but you should not encourage anyone to send it over the wire as a web page. The translation to XHTML should be done on the server. The advantage of XHTML is that it is a standardized language with known semantics. A translation of its tags would just be arbitrary XML, which although it can be styled for graphical browsers, isn't otherwise accessible because the semantics are unknown. See http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1064828134&count=1 http://annevankesteren.nl/2005/05/generic-xml http://tantek.com/log/2005/07.html#d24t1935 ~fantasai
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