Re: [xml-dev] Suggestions for a slightly less verbose (and easier toauthor) XML

["Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@comcast.net>]

[Rob Lugt]

> Thomas B. Passin wrote
> > Plus, xhtml with short tags wouldn't work in standard browsers.
>
> Are you suggesting that standard browser compatibility is a reasonable
> criteria for judging future modifications to XML?  If so, I wonder how XML
> 1.1 [1] will fair.
>
 I think that's exactly what is should be expected from xhtml.  So if there
were optional features that would cause the parse to fail, there would have
to be a capability to turn them off.  More complexity.

Cheers,

Tom P