Re: [xml-dev] XHTML 2.0: the one bright light?

[Arjun Ray <aray@nyct.net>]

"Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com> wrote:

| Validation seems to be a fetish that's ruled the project, not something 
| productive in and of itself. 

I think the fetish has been "encompassing" validation, as opposed to
"enabling" validation, to borrow two terms:

 http://www.ornl.gov/sgml/wg8/docs/n1920/html/clause-A.3.1.html

(Things would be easier if DTDs had an explicit provision for "delegation"
but architectures actually go beyond that.)