Re: conformance constraints on producers that go beyond syntax

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Jonathan Rees writes:

> There's nothing suggesting that [HTML] inherits anything from SGML other
> than its definition of conforming document. The HTML5 draft is
> careful to say "This specification describes the conformance
> criteria for user agents and documents" omitting any mention of
> authors. SGML has been expunged. The bit about author good practice
> has been removed, promoting the no-tag-abuse rule to normative
> status.

I suspect we have a [tendentious, in the spirit of this thread :-]
difference of interpretation here.  I interpret the SGML definition of
conformance as applying to documents and that _includes_ the
requirement that the semantics of the documents must conform to the
semantics specified by the application in the document type
definition, which means, _inter alia_ no tag abuse.

So HTML _does_ inherit the prohibition on tag abuse from SGML, IMO.

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