Name of HTML 4.0 successor ?

[Eve L. Maler]

A while back, the XML WG was discussing this issue and started calling it
the "HTxML DTD."  (I think it was Dave Hollander's idea.)  Don't know if
that helps.

	Eve

At 05:56 PM 10/20/97 -0400, Ben Trafford wrote:
>Ingo Macherius wrote:
>> 
>> In preparation of a talk I wondered if there already is a name for an
>> XML compatible HTML. HTML 4.0 surely is not syntactically compatible
>> to XML productions, but I would wonder if there isn't work underway.
>> Is it simply HTML 5.0, or HTML-XML ?
>> --
>
>	As I've been developing an XML DTD to provide the functionality of HTML
>4.0 (now horrendously late - sigh) I've been using the working title of
>HTML-XML, just as you suggest above. I don't think it's the W3C's
>intention to replace HTML with XML, and I certainly would be surprised
>if they made the HTML 5.0 (or even 4.0) DTD from XML. Although, come to
>think of it, there probably wouldn't be a huge difference in the two
>DTDs, in terms of what they can do.
>
>	I vote for HTML-XML. It's faster than saying "an XML DTD to provide the
>functionality of HTML 4.0."
>
>--->Ben Trafford
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