Re: [CSS21] Grammar precludes future XML syntax for CSS

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 07:35:27PM +0200, Chris Lilley wrote:
> [...] CSS level 7 could not use XML syntax, for
> example. Is that a deliberate design decision or an oversight?

I think it could be argued that a reformulation of CSS based on a different
syntax (e.g. XML, binary, whatever) would result in something that was not
CSS, in the same way that XHTML1 - a reformulation of HTML4's semantics in
XML - is not HTML.

Regards,
Malcolm

Received on Friday, 16 September 2005 19:50:22 UTC