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   RE: [xml-dev] What is the rule for parsing XML in a namespace inside HTM

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  • To: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>,"Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
  • Subject: RE: [xml-dev] What is the rule for parsing XML in a namespace inside HTML?
  • From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>
  • Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:16:08 -0700
  • Cc: "XML Developers List" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
  • Thread-index: AcRodk+Eup4zXCg5TO6ZBK3NMEVaYAAACLpQ
  • Thread-topic: [xml-dev] What is the rule for parsing XML in a namespace inside HTML?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@metalab.unc.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 6:01 PM
> To: Joshua Allen
> Cc: XML Developers List
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] What is the rule for parsing XML in a 
> namespace inside HTML?
> 
> XHTML vastly simplifies machine processing for all sorts of 
> purposes.

Yep, this is the only concrete benefit of XHTML I've seen. It makes it
easier for people to screen scrape your site. I find this to be a very
dubious benefit at best.  

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