- From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 16:58:13 +0900 (JST)
- To: www-tag@w3.org
Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM> wrote: > Per my action of 8 July 2002, I've updated the finding at > > http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/formatting-properties Again, please never say HTML when you refer to XHTML, in particular when you are mixing namespaces. Due to unfortunate examples in Namespaces in XML REC, some people incorrectly think that (SGML-based) HTML can be mixed with other XML vocabularies using namespaces, and some software even behave that way. Please don't encourage bad perception in TAG Finding. In some cases you might want to use the term HTML to mean both SGML-based HTML and XHTML, but I don't think that's the case here. Calling XHTML as HTML is in many cases as confusing as calling XML as SGML. In some limited context that might make sense, but in general we'd better distinguish them to avoid confusion whenever possible. Regards, -- Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
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