why distinctions within XHTML?

[Mark Birbeck]

The world needs the ability to nest XHTML inside XML and XML inside
XHTML as soon as possible, true. But that will take schemas if you want
validation, so there's nothing XHTML can do about that. The world also
wants lots of neat little chunks of parts of XHTML to put in their
mobile phones and toaster browser code. But that's still early days.

But what the world needs now ... is a definition of HTML that conforms
to XML standards, that can be validated before having meta-information
added.

You therefore cannot hold it back for the other stuff, nice to have as
it would be.

Mark


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lauren Wood [mailto:lauren at sqwest.bc.ca]
> Sent: 02 September 1999 19:51
> To: XML-Dev Mailing list
> Subject: Re: why distinctions within XHTML?
> 
> 
> On 2 Sep 99, at 11:05, David Brownell wrote:
> 
> > For the record, some of my feedback back in March to the XHTML work
> > was that the basics of the modularization stuff should be in the 
> > first release, since it's that fundamental.  I'd even 
> support holding
> > back a 1.0 release to ensure modularization is covered.
> 
> I would agree with this. I think the world needs the modularization 
> as soon as possible and the current XHTML 1.0 brouhaha is taking 
> time and energy away from that for little gain.
> 
> 
> Lauren
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