Re: XML, namespaces, extensibility and validation

Hi Karl,

On 2007/09/06, at 1:52 PM, Karl Dubost wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> In a process to try to clarify.
>
> Mark Nottingham (5 sept. 2007 - 10:15) :
>>>> - give a list of extensions used the validator does not know  
>>>> about.  This is a warning, not an error.
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> Fix if I misunderstood:
>
> For HTML 4.01, HTML 3.2 (W3C specs), we have two choices.
>    1. Rescinding them when HTML 5 has been published [1]
>    2. Republish them with these processing rules (unlikely)

Both are drastic steps, and neither is likely to happen. I tried to  
argue that the spirit of HTML 4.01 allows the validator to only warn  
on unrecognised extensions, unsuccessfully.


> For HTML 5, does it mean
>    unrecognised elements/attributes
>    => which are not in the HTML 5 specification.
>
> This is a conformant HTML 5 document.
>
> <!DOCTYPE html>
> <title>life is beautiful<title>
> <p>
>
>
> You would issue warnings for "bar" attribute and "foo" element.
>
> <!DOCTYPE html>
> <title>life is beautiful<title>
> <p bar>
> <foo>
>
> You would issue error for "foo" element and warning for "bar"  
> attribute
> 	(markup is forbidden inside title element, text only)
>
> <!DOCTYPE html>
> <title>life <foo bar>is beautiful<title>
> <p>

Yes.


> In Camino (Firefox 2 engine), it closes the title and moves the  
> "foo" element to the body.
> In Safari 2.0, the text and the elements disappears aka no title,  
> no foreign element.
> http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C!DOCTYPE% 
> 20html%3E%0A%3Ctitle%3Elife%20%3Cfoo%20bar%3Eis%20beautiful%3Ctitle% 
> 3E%0A%3Cp%3E%0A
>
>
>
>
> [1]: http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#rec-rescind
>
>
> -- 
> Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
> W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead
>   QA Weblog - http://www.w3.org/QA/
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>
>
>

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Mark Nottingham       mnot@yahoo-inc.com

Received on Thursday, 6 September 2007 03:59:23 UTC