Re: books & mozilla

by "Garreth Galligan" <ggalligan(at)transcomsoftware.com>

Date:	Thu, 27 Apr 2000 09:48:08 +0100
To:	<hwg-xml(at)hwg.org>
References:	gte
	todo: View Thread, Original

Guys, I apologise if I have gone and confused the issue :( :( :(
I hoped to clarify what XHMTL is but I seemed to have knocked the discussion
off track.

What I have said is 100% accurate, in a technical sense. But perhaps this
thread is more geared towards concepts familiar to HTML authors and I wasn't
being sensitive to the practical terms you are considering.

The XHMTL is HTML as far as the fuzzy parsers in the non-XML browsers are
concerned.
So in this context describing XHTML as an 'in between' is entirely correct
as the old browsers can 'do something' with it in a manner which they can't
with other applications of XML.

What I was saying is this:
XHTML is an application of XML. I expect to be able to do anything with that
document that I can do with any application of XML. If I cannot, than XHTML
is obviously not supported by that user-agent. In a *techinal context* XML
isn't 'in between' HTML and XML - it is XML.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tammy Scroggs" <tscroggs(at)gte.net>
To: <hwg-xml(at)hwg.org>; <ggalligan(at)transcomsoftware.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 1:20 AM
Subject: Re: books & mozilla

> On 26 Apr 00, at 14:30, Garreth Galligan wrote:
>
> > >I think, XHTML is the 'in-between' since the "browsers in general" do
not
> > >support XML just yet.
> >
> > XHTML is an application of XML. It is merely 'updating' the various
schemas
> > of HTML 4.0 to an XML syntax. If a browser doesn't support XML it will
not
> > support XHTML.
>
> I think this is an overstatement .... I think (know) that older browsers
> are able to show at least simple XHTML pages.  For demonstration purposes
> I've used Netscape 3.0 to view the W3C's XHTML pages, their DTD info
> (given below) indicates they are written in XHTML and I am able to view
> and print XHTML 1.0 spec from there
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-xhtml-basic-20000210/xhtml-basic10.dtd">
> <html xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>
> Tammy
>
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