- From: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:47:24 -0500
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- CC: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, www-tag@w3.org
Oh I see. They are producing an XHTML version of their registries... but I would guess those are generated out of the custom xml. That is unfortunate, I agree. Dan Connolly wrote: > On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 14:38 -0500, Shane McCarron wrote: > >> There is a note about XHTML here w.r.t. IANA registries that I don't >> understand... DanC or someone, can you fill in the blanks? >> > > XHTML is also XML. I prefer XHTML to separate custom XML dialects > for this sort of thing. But I seem to be part of a vanishing > minority. > > >> Henry S. Thompson wrote: >> >>> DanC: News from IETF >>> >>> <DanC> IANA Update: Project to convert registries to XML >>> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg52473.html >>> >>> <DanC> "In order to make the transition as smooth as possible, IANA >>> will continue to maintain the legacy plain text formats until 30 >>> November 2008. After this date, plain text versions will only be >>> provided that are derived from the XML formats. However, implementors >>> who intend to parse the contents of an IANA protocol registry should >>> migrate to using the XML versions, rather than the plain text >>> version." >>> >>> SW: Instead of text files? >>> >>> DC: In addition to >>> ... XHTML could have killed two bullets with one stone there. . . >>> > > -- Shane P. McCarron Phone: +1 763 786-8160 x120 Managing Director Fax: +1 763 786-8180 ApTest Minnesota Inet: shane@aptest.com
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