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   Re: why distinctions within XHTML?

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  • From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
  • To: roddey@us.ibm.com
  • Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 01:22:17 -0400 (EDT)

roddey@us.ibm.com scripsit:

> Does not the 'X' in XHTML pretty much mean that technically there should be no
> 'non-strict' version? I mean if its HTML, its HTML. But, if its XML, then it
> needs to be well formed XML. I think that its going a little too far in the
> direction of backwards compatability to do anything else. All parsers out there
> now would reject non-strict HTML as not well formed anyway, right? I'm assuming
> that non-strict (or traditional, or classic or whatever it is :-) means you
> don't need a </p> for every <p> and so on, right?

No.  "Strict" means "guaranteed not to have deprecated element types and
attributes" in the HTML context; it has nothing to do with SGML vs. XML.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
       I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin

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