[whatwg] HTML 5 vs. XHTML 2.0
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen at iki.fi
Sat Nov 13 04:05:26 PST 2004
On Nov 13, 2004, at 01:52, Laurens Holst wrote:
> At my job we currently create the documentation files for our product
> with a transformation of our documents, which use a 'custom' format,
> which is basically XHTML 2.0 plus some XHTML 1.0 tags which we felt
> were practical (e.g. <img>), and some stuff of our own.
I don't think such private use is a good argument for including
elements in a general-purpose markup language for the Web. By the way,
why don't you use Docbook?
> I can say that stuff like 'section' and 'h' instead of h1...h6 is
> quite vital to the process of document creation. Also, try for example
> to generate a TOC out of h1...h6 headings (with XSLT, that is...),
> it's pretty hard.
With XSLT, it is not uncommon that the problem is the hammer--not the
nail.
Anyway, I do think it's a problem for styling, automatic content
extraction and non-CSS presentation that HTML lacks the markup for
indicating which parts of the page are content proper and which are
navigation and other chrome. Therefore, a footer element for isolating
navigation and legal stuff from content would make sense.
(Already suggested in
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2002Aug/0229.html at the
end of the message.)
--
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen at iki.fi
http://iki.fi/hsivonen/
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