[Fwd: ATTN: Please comment on XHTML (before it's too late)]

vishal sharan mettlus at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 30 17:43:13 BST 1999


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--- Ann Navarro <ann at webgeek.com> wrote:
> At 06:41 PM 8/29/99 +0100, W. Eliot Kimber wrote:
> 
> > > No, we've not confused them. We happen to have
> three 'flavors' of XHTML 1.0
> > > (the first deliverable from the XHTML project,
> not the end sum of our
> > > work), that essentially map to the three flavors
> of HTML 4.0. Each of them
> > > was assigned a namespace that corresponds in
> title to the three flavor
> > > names. We do not mistakenly confuse their DTDs
> for their namespaces. (nor
> > > are we limiting XHTML to the use of DTDs,
> Schemas, as has been pointed out,
> > > 'isn't soup yet')
> >
> >But: name spaces do not define anything. Therefore,
> a namespace cannot
> >be the *definition* of what these three flavors
> are.
> 
> 
> I didn't say they did define anything. I said they
> each have a namespace. 
> Period. They each have a DTD. Period.
> 
> They happen to share a string for a portion of their
> titles.
> 
> That does not say "the namespace defines the
> flavors".
> 
> Ann
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