"John Bokma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 18 Oct 2005 06:57:47 GMT, John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> or quoted : >> >>>>>That an HTML standard (ISO/IEC 15445:2000) and an HTML >>>>>recommendation by w3c (4.01 for example) are two different things, >>>>>and mixing them up by calling both standards is a bad thing. >>>> >>>> Because ... what are the consequences? >>> >>>If you mean if you are put in jail for 20 years, and tortured, none. >> >> No. ANY consequences. You have not explained the downside. > > ISO HTML and HTML 4.01 differ. If you were asked to write a validating > parser for the HTML standard, (as in ISO), and you wrote one for HTML 4.01 > (as in recommendation), you made quite a mistake.
There are standards that conflict, and also recommendations that conflict. Why is confusing standard A with recommendation P worse than 1. confusing standard A with standard B, or 2. confusing recommendation P with recommendation Q -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
