- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:39:37 -0700
- To: "Eric J. Bowman" <eric@bisonsystems.net>
- CC: "karld@opera.com" <karld@opera.com>, "nrm@arcanedomain.com" <nrm@arcanedomain.com>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>, "ndw@nwalsh.com" <ndw@nwalsh.com>
> I suppose there's some design pattern "SIFR" which produces pages
> that cannot be expressed in polyglot?
>
>
> *Why* can't "SIFR" be served as application/xhtml+xml?
>
> See points 1 and 5, here:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_13
> HTML normalizes to uppercase, XML doesn't; SIFR relies on uppercase
> normalization, breaks otherwise.
It seems like this could be fixed by XML, HTML, or CSS. If the price of convergence of HTML and XML is making some change like this ("xml2" = "xml except it normalizes to uppercase" ?)
Why is normalization part of the XML definition at all? Isn't this just an odd artifact of CSS?
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