- From: Eric J. Bowman <eric@bisonsystems.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:15:14 -0700
- To: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
David Carlisle wrote: > > On 13/02/2013 22:36, Eric J. Bowman wrote: > > Apparently I need to make this point, again: If there was no > > interest in polyglot, there would be no HTML parser in libxml2; its > > presence, and widespread use if xsl-list is any indication, > > indicates otherwise. > > If you can put an HTML parser in front of an XML tool-chain then you > can pull in unrestricted HTML syntax and you have no need to produce > HTML documents following the polyglot guidelines which are designed > to allow an HTML document to be fed to the tool-chain via an XML > parser. > In some cases where the HTML is "almost" parseable as XML, pointing the producer to the guidelines may result in XML-parseable output, and thus no need to put an HTML parser in front of an XML toolchain -- which is preferable vs. potentially losing something in the translation. -Eric
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