Re: XML and Unicode interoperability comes before HTML or even SGML

2004-08-15 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > W3C still maintains a distinction between HTML and XHTML, and still > offers both specifications.on its site. And Unicode still publishes its previous versions too. And even the RFC Editor publishes deprecated RFCs on its web site too (www.rfc-editor.org is

Re: XML and Unicode interoperability comes before HTML or even SGML

2004-08-15 Thread Doug Ewell
Philippe Verdy wrote: >> HTML is not an application of XML. HTML and XML are both >> applications of SGML. XHTML, which I use and recommend, is an >> application of HTML *to* XML. > > You did not need to specify this. I said "TODAY" which means the > *current* standard version of HTML, which is

Re: XML and Unicode interoperability comes before HTML or even SGML

2004-08-15 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Philippe Verdy wrote: > > Shamely, > I wish I knew which real English word you mean by this. "Shamefully"? > "Sadly"? "Unfortunately"? "Embarrassingly"? I know that I use this word instead of "unfortunately". I don't know where I learnt it, but I use it

Re: XML and Unicode interoperability comes before HTML or even SGML

2004-08-14 Thread Doug Ewell
Philippe Verdy wrote: > Shamely, I wish I knew which real English word you mean by this. "Shamefully"? "Sadly"? "Unfortunately"? "Embarrassingly"? > the idea of "block-level" and "inline" elements is specific to HTML, > but HTML today is an application of XML, and the problem must be > solve

Re: XML and Unicode interoperability comes before HTML or even SGML (was: Combining across markup?)

2004-08-14 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
W liście z sob, 14-08-2004, godz. 12:35 +0200, Philippe Verdy napisał: > Simply because, for both Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646, the character > model includes the fact that ANY base character forms a combining > character sequence with ANY following combining character or ZW(N)J > character. Shouldn

Re: XML and Unicode interoperability comes before HTML or even SGML (was: Combining across markup?)

2004-08-14 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 2004.08.11, 18:58, Mike Ayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Better yet, have a generic mechanism which allows you to build > > Even better yet: Have the WC3 rephrase their demand that no element > should start with a defective sequence