Re: XML5: Re: [xml-dev] MicroXML

[rjelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>]

 On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:45:56 +0000, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> 
 wrote:
> On 14/12/2010 14:38, rjelliffe wrote:
>> I was thinking about how it behaves with XML with names not in
>> HTML/MATHML/SVG.
>
> well there the main (only?) thing that is unfortunate is that it
> parses <foo/> as a start tag.
>
> namespace declarations are ignored: unknown elements go into the
> namespace of their parent, so xhtml normally. But that can be
> explained easily enough "html doesn't do namespaces"
>
> but fixing up the dom tree after
> <aaa><xxx/><yyy/></aaa>
> parses as
> <aaa><xxx><yyy></yyy></xxx></aaa>
> is a pain.


 So lets get rid of the short form <x/> then! And gain end-tag omission.

 Cheers
 Rick