- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 23:30:21 +0100
- To: "Elliotte Harold" <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>, www-math@w3.org
All good reasons to use XHTML5 and not HTML5. Tools supporting HTML5 will have to support the HTML5 parser as well and therefore the HTML5 serialization. I don't really see your point. On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 23:23:12 +0100, Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu> wrote: > Anne van Kesteren wrote: > >> Yes, exactly the reason they have the correct (MathML) namespace in the >> DOM. So they can be rendered, etc. The serialization format doesn't >> really matter. > > Like hell it doesn't matter! A DOM doesn't travel over the network. The > serialized form does. The DOM is one possible local model used to > process the document on one system. My tools may or may not be based on > the DOM, but they're going to start by receiving an actual XML instance. > We can use TagSoup to fudge HTML, but if you I want to handle MathML, > SVG, and other things in it, That instance had better be namespace > well-formed, and it had better use the right names for the right things, > both local and qualified. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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