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- From: Ann Navarro <ann@webgeek.com>
- To: Mark Birbeck <Mark.Birbeck@iedigital.net>, xml-dev <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 13:18:18 -0400
At 05:49 PM 8/30/99 +0100, Mark Birbeck wrote:
>Surely the whole point of XHTML is to allow the processing of existing
>HTML using XML techniques.
Yes!!
>Beyond that I can't see much use for it in
>its current incarnation. For example, you can't embed data from other
>namespaces without dropping the reference to the DTD (this is how the
>MathML example in the proposal works, section 3.1.2), but that is a
>limitation of DTDs, not XHTML.
Exactly. This is step 1. The real exciting stuff is coming, this just gets
us into the right syntatical mind-set.
Ann
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