[Fwd: ATTN: Please comment on XHTML (before it's too late)]
David Megginson
david at megginson.com
Sun Aug 29 20:31:07 BST 1999
Ann Navarro writes:
> At 10:54 AM 8/29/99 -0700, Dave Winer wrote:
> >As the developer of web content management software, and the webmaster for
> >over a dozen active websites, here's what I think XHTML should be.
> >
> >1. A tightening up of HTML. Eliminate the anomalies, like <li>, <img>, <p>
> >that in HTML can appear without balancing </li>, </img>, </p> tags. XHTML
> >pages should be well-formed XML, with mods to HTML to bring it into
> >well-formedness.
> >
> >That's it. Nothing more
>
>
> And that's exactly the intention of XHTML 1.0.
There's a little more -- XHTML 1.0 also *requires* the use of one of
the three XHTML Namespaces and of a DOCTYPE declaration, and hints at
a future system of modules.
All the best,
David
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