- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:04:44 -0700
- To: Ann Navarro <ann@webgeek.com>
- Cc: WWW-Tag <www-tag@w3.org>
On Friday, October 4, 2002, at 06:43 PM, Ann Navarro wrote: > At 03:20 PM 10/4/2002 -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > >> That is the only reason why anyone would want an XHTML 2.0 -- because >> they >> can pre-code the DTD and default stylesheet if it is a standard format. > > The *only* reason someone would want an XHTML 2.0 is to be able to hard > code semantics? Yes, because that is the only difference between ad-hoc XML and a standardized language within XML. HTML is SGML with a pre-coded DTD and default stylesheet. XHTML is XML with a pre-coded DTD and default stylesheet. > I can't be anything other than flabbergasted at such a suggestion. Unfortunately, I am not surprised that folks seem to have forgotten the very basis of the technology that is being defined. I was flabbergasted when someone told me that XHTML 2.0 would not be backwards compatible with HTML, since that is the only reason I use XHTML 1. ....Roy
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