I'll defer to Julian on matters of HTML; he's braver than I ;)

On 22/04/2010, at 5:01 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> On 22.04.2010 06:42, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> For the issues around formats, have you considered using content negotiation?
>> 
>>   http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.html#sec-12.1
> 
> +1
> 
>> WRT XHTML, it's a candidate for deprecation for a different reason; the W3C 
>> is moving away from XHTML as part of the HTML5 effort. Current fashion for 
>> this type of problem is to use microformats / RDFa, but that's still 
>> work-in-progress from a standards standpoint, AIUI.
>> ...
> 
> As a member of the W3C HTML WG I have to disagree with Mark. HTML5 defines 
> and maintains both serializations. It *does* spend lots of spec space to 
> define tag-soup parsing, yes, but that's simply because that format is so 
> broken; the XML variant is still there.
> 
> Best regards, Julian


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