- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:38:54 -0400
- To: public-html@w3.org
- CC: www-svg@w3.org
Hi, Rob- Rob Sayre wrote (on 3/16/09 8:57 PM): > On 3/16/09 8:31 PM, Doug Schepers wrote: >> T.V Raman wrote (on 3/16/09 12:58 PM): >>> And this is why in gneral, it would be a good idea for >>> show-source to perhaps show a cleaned-up serialization, rather >>> than the original tag-soup that was authored. >> >> I think everyone is on board with this idea, not just for SVG and >> MathML, but even for HTML... if someone out there has a good rationale >> against it, I'd be curious to know what that is. > > If you concatenate two HTML documents, you still get an HTML document. > If you concatenate two XML documents, you don't get an XML document. > > This is just one example of XML's incompatibility with cut and paste, > and string concatenation in general. > > In other words, it won't work. I guess that depends on your definition of document. This: <fooML> <blah /> </fooML> <barML> <baz> <fweep/> </baz> </barML> Would have 2 document roots, I suppose, but could be contained in the same file, and could be output that way. Maybe I'm not understanding you? Regards- -Doug Schepers W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs
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