Re: XML, namespaces, extensibility and validation

On 2007/06/25, at 4:22 PM, olivier Thereaux wrote:

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>> - allow people to add new elements and tags, using namespaces.
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> This is mostly something the XHTML specs should allow.

The HTML specs don't (depending on how you read them), but IMO they  
should (I've brought this up before).

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>> - give a list of extensions used the validator does not know  
>> about.  This is a warning, not an error.
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> Could you give an example of that?

My thinking was that unrecognised elements/attributes in HTML (not  
just XHTML) should raise a warning, rather than an error.

Cheers,

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Mark Nottingham       mnot@yahoo-inc.com

Received on Wednesday, 5 September 2007 01:17:32 UTC