Olav Junker Kjær wrote:What is the benefit of having HTML defined as an application of SGML ?
So that it may be processed with SGML tools,
Can we focus on real use cases, please? Who would anyone want to use SGML tools (except perhaps for feel-good validation pending proper conformance checkers) now that tag soup tools and XML tools exist?
and possibly even generated using XSLT.
An XSLT transformer is an XML tool--not an SGML tool. You can generate HTML 4 or What WG HTML using XSLT by writing your transformation to produce XHTML, taking SAX output from the transformer and using an HTML serializer at the end of the SAX pipeline.
Even if it is decided that HTML 5 is not formally an application of SGML, it must at least remain fully compatible with SGML, and thus a conformant HTML 5 document must be a conformant SGML document.
At least I am still unconvinced about your "must".
XHTML variants of HTML 5 must be a conformant XML document instead, though I noticed that is not the case with square brackets in ID attributes in section 3.7.2 of WF2
That's not a problem if you don't claim they are ID attributes but attributes that happen to be named id.
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