Re: [CSS21] Make XHTML <body> magic just like HTML <body>

The CSS WG decided _not_ to change the spec in response to Simon 
Pieters's request[1] to make BODY as special in XHTML as in HTML. (The 
exceptions for HTML are there for historical reasons, they affect other 
elements than BODY, too and we like them to _stay_ exceptions. Our 
impression is that the XHTML WG also doesn't want them to apply to 
XHTML. Also consider that other XML-based formats aren't special 
either, even if if they have a BODY element.)

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Mar/0035.html

(For reference, this is issue 31 in the forthcoming "Disposition of 
Comments.")

Simon, please let us know if you can't agree with this resolution.



For the CSS WG,

Bert
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