RE: Revised HTML/XML Task Force Report

With respect to:
> "Even this is not a 100% solution as is still possible to encounter HTML documents that cannot be represented perfectly in XML"
I wrote:
> It would be helpful to elaborate how common such documents are and what kinds of problems in the lack of "perfect" representation might encounter.

Karl replied:
> Most details are available into
> http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-xhtml-author-guide/html-xhtml-authoring-guide.html 

> So maybe it is just a question of linking to it.

But the polyglot specification referenced above does not address the questions I asked:

* How common are HTML documents that cannot be  reasonably represented in XML?
* What kinds of practical difficulties would arise for those documents (and how serious are those difficulties)?

so no, my question isn't addressed by linking to that specification.

Larry
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Received on Tuesday, 12 July 2011 01:14:20 UTC