2013/9/11 Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>:
> Konstantin,
>
> On 9/11/13 12:32 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
>> 2013/9/11 Konstantin Preißer <verlag.preis...@t-online.de>:
>>> Hi Konstantin,
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Konstantin Kolinko [mailto:knst.koli...@gmail.com]
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 4:05 PM
>>>>
>>>> The header/main/footer tags are not in HTML 5.
>>>>
>>>> They are in 5.1 which is not a spec yet, just a draft. I think it is too 
>>>> early to use
>>>> them.
>>>
>>> The <main> tag is only in HTML 5.1 [1], but <header> and <footer> are in 
>>> HTML5 [2] which is a candidate recommendation, so I think it should be okay 
>>> to use them - Firefox, Chrome and IE 9/10 support <header> and <footer> 
>>> (they use "display: block;" CSS for it), but IE 9 and below will use <div> 
>>> which is added with conditional comments.
>>>
>>> The <main> tag is not supported by IE 10 yet, so I added the CSS "main { 
>>> display: block; }" to use the correct style in IE 10. However, Firefox 23 
>>> and Chrome 29 already support the <main> tag, so I think it would be OK to 
>>> leave it. But we can remove it as the HTML 5 spec says, to mark the "main" 
>>> content of a page, just leave it and mark everything else with "header" and 
>>> "footer"; so I think, semantically, the <main> tag would not be needed.
>>
>> 1. All those <header><footer> are only marginally better than <div>.
>> Keep it simple.
>>
>> I do not like the use of conditional comments.
>>
>> 2. Not every server is connected to the internet and is kept
>> up-to-date to have the latest Firefox.  I have to maintain Tomcat on
>> several servers that have old version of Firefox installed (such as
>> 3.6). This documentation will be broken there. [3]
>> (Well, it is not a show stopper. It would be a lot more trouble if we
>> broke the Manager application).
>>
>> IIRC, the plan was to roll this design to Tomcat 7 and Tomcat 6 as well.
>
> Since we have XSLT at our disposal, I propose that we:
>
> a) leave <header> and some of the more exotic HTML5 elements in place in
> the source.
>
> b) have the transformer convert <header> into <div> for the time being.
> At some point in the future, we can remove that substitution.
>
> If I've got it wrong, and the XSLT is the problem (because it converts
> <section> into <header> instead of <div>), well then it's just a
> one-step process: change the XSLT to use <div> instead of <header> and
> be done with it.

That <header> is inside XSLT itself, in a template for the page, in
<xsl:template match="document">.

There is no <header> elements in the xdoc sources themselves.

Best regards,
Konstantin Kolinko

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