[whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5
James Graham
jg307 at cam.ac.uk
Mon Dec 4 06:43:05 PST 2006
Elliotte Harold wrote:
> That means I have to send text/html to browsers (because that's the only
> thing they understand) and let my clients ignore that hint.
No.
As I understand it, the full chain of events should look like this:
[Internal data model in server]
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HTML 5 Serializer
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{Network}
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HTML 5 Parser
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[Whatever client tools you like]
The only technical issue is that your HTML5 parser has to produce a data format
that your other client tools like. If this involves the construction of an
XML-like tree that's fine. But you should _never_ try to use an XML parser to
produce the tree because it _will_ break with conforming HTML5 documents.
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