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Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>>From: Joshua Allen [mailto:joshuaa@microsoft.com]
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>>Choose the right tool for
>>the task -- in this case, the right tool will be either HTML or XML; not
>>some abominable hybrid.
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>Ummm... so what is HTML plus VML?
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>XHTML is a separate issue. So is Atom. So
>are screen scraping and services. This message
>is and only is about what it means to have namespaced
>XML inside HTML.
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>I can and did fix the emitting database, but validation appears
>to be beyond the one validating tool I would think
>I could rely on: IE. To be fair, as long as the
>namespace is used, no <?xml is required, but that
>means the namespaced xml is in fact, not XML. It
>is a weird state of affairs because the Microsoft
>articles I rely on to apply this technology say
>that it is XML. Not to be mean, but that would
>infer that Microsoft is not reliable.
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>That is not the speech your boss wants
>to give. It is precisely the speech
>he wants to avoid.
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>VML doesn't use the <xml> tag. It uses the
>namespace decl and a behavior CSS decl.
>The solution needs to work from
>those declarations, not a tag. OTW, the right
>way would be to insist when a namespace is
>embedded, that the wrapper document (HTML
>in this case) be conformant XML even if it
>isn't XHTML should the developer insist on
>well-formedness. We don't need more hacks.
>We need XML rules to work as spec'd where
>declared. If the browser is XML-aware,
>it also has to be conformant where declared.
>No exceptions.
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>What happens when we get to XAML?
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or xul - which i'm liking more each day..... it isn't tolerant of errors
at all - gives error messages :)
>len
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