Michael Kay wrote:
>> What do folks think? Is this reasonable, given the use case,
>> or is this pushing too hard on attributes and escaping?
>
> A number of people have commented on the aesthetics, and I agree with them
> entirely.
>
> However, there is also a technical argument: XSLT, XQuery, and any other
> processing engine that takes an XML-centric view of the world, will be quite
> incapable of generating this stuff.
I'm afraid XML-centric views of the world have little traction with the
creators of HTML5. Remember, HTML5 preferred to define its own syntax:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#parsing
"While the HTML syntax described in this specification bears a close
resemblance to SGML and XML, it is a separate language with its own
parsing rules."
It does support an XHTML syntax:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/the-xhtml-syntax.html#the-xhtml-syntax
HTML5 is still, of course, markup, which is why I asked about this
particular construct here.
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Simon St.Laurent
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