Re: Status of Data Islands

[Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>]

Len,


> Please, some help with this?  At this URL
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-xh
>
> is a W3C note referenced from
> Microsoft articles on data islands.
>
> 1.  Has there been further work on
> W3C spec'ing this technique?

    Modularization in XHTML has superceded the idea of embedding XML in an
<XML> tag. XHTML Basic 1.0 is the first W3C recommendation to make use of
Modularization. RDDL uses this technique of namespace qualification.

    You either care about validation or not. If so, <!ELEMENT XML #any> is a
weak excuse for validation, hence why not create a real XHTML Extension. If
you don't care about validation then stick whatever XML wherever you want in
the XHTML using whatever tag you please.

-Jonathan