Who needs XHTML?

[David Megginson]

Mark Birbeck writes:

 > I think a number of contributors have very patiently explained that
 > this is only XHTML 1.0. It handles the ability to process HTML as
 > if it were XML, and for that we should be grateful. I'm using that
 > feature quite a lot.

While we're still a ways away from having schemas that allow
document-type assembly from other schemas, the most important task for 
XHTML (other than saying that XHTML should be well-formed XML, which
is a bit of a truisim), is to establish an XHTML Namespace so that
processors can discover HTML markup in arbitrary XML documents.   We
don't need Namespace-aware schemas or anything else to do that.


All the best,


David

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