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W3C 'clarifies' HTML 5 v XHTML

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Potential conflicts and overlap between the first update to HTML in a decade by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and XHTML has been addressed by the standards body. The group, meanwhile, has also acknowledged vendors are - once again - pushing their own platform-specific technologies, this time on RIA, with the standards process unable to keep up. This poses a problem on interoperability.

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Sander_Marechal ·
HTML5's biggest flaw is that it's HTML. That means it's SGML and not XML. God only knows why WHATWG decided to work off HTML4 instead of XHTML1. They'll now miss out on the wonderfull world of XML with all it's uses. Practical example: You can't embed it in an atom XML feed. Which means that you can't use useful things like the video tag in them.

The only reason I can think off why they would do this is because they "felt" like they couldn't also be working on XHTML2 since W3C was already working on it. And that's a pretty lousy reason to stick with SGML.
gus3 ·
As a counterpoint:

Say you have some data. Your only problem is how to represent it.

You go with XML.

Now you have two problems.

Just sayin'.
npan ·
1. HTML5 has a video element. 2. The HTML5 draft defines a parallel XML serialization for HTML5. The XML serialization is called XHTML5.
jezuch ·
Quoting:The XML serialization is called XHTML5


Oh great. I love the confusion.

AFAIR they decided to work off HTML because they wanted evolution, not revolution. I think they're wrong, because it will waste a great chance to clean up this HTML mess, but at least I understand them...
Sander_Marechal ·
Quoting:The XML serialization is called XHTML5


Sigh...

While HTML5 does have some nice features, it's stupid things like this that makes me prefer XHTML2 when it's out.

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