- From: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:17:39 +0100
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
- Cc: Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
Hi Larry, On Feb 10, 2010, at 18:37 , Larry Masinter wrote: > 2) continue to support "polyglot" workflows where an XML-based > development and validation process might choose its own > subset, profile, or even superset of XML-based vocabularies > and syntactic restrictions, use <!DOCTYPE > with PUBLIC > and SYSTEM IDs in that workflow, but then serve those documents > as text/html, in a way that a HTML5 validator would not warn > or reject such documents. > > It sounds like the HTML5 document doesn't explicitly define > "conforming document", so this might be a little harder, but > let's assume for now when the specification says > "<!DOCTYPE > is a mainly useless header" and does not describe > use of PUBLIC or SYSTEM identifiers, that currently the > goal (2) is not accomplished, and some change proposal is > needed. I'm not sure that I understand your intent so please correct me if I'm wrong. Are you suggesting to change the way in which HTML5 documents handle PUBLID and SYSTEM IDs, as well I presume as the internal subset, so that they can be used in conforming text/html serialisations? That seems like a lot of work for what are essentially useless features in an XML workflow. We'd be better off ditching them on the XML side. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/
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