[whatwg] HTML5 Parsing spec first draft ready
Dan Brickley
danbri at danbri.org
Thu Feb 16 12:06:01 PST 2006
* Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> [2006-02-16 00:12+0000]
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Dan Brickley wrote:
> >
> > * Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> [2006-02-15 23:02+0000]
> > > On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Dan Brickley wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Have you considered defining the parser behaviour in terms of XML
> > > > concepts?
> > >
> > > What would that mean?
> > >
> > > Could you give an example of what that would look like?
> >
> > Expressing things in terms of DOM would be one way, assuming
> > there is a mapping to XML infoset from the DOM
>
> Well in that case, it's done. The HTML5 Parser spec is a mapping from a
> Unicode character stream to a DOM.
>
>
> > > The output of the parser is a DOM, so the natural form to use as an
> > > output concrete syntax is simply a serialised DOM (e.g. an XML file).
> >
> > If your DOM comes with a standard XMLization, we're golden. Sorry I'm
> > not so up to date on DOM stuff (eg. which DOMs have an XMLization
> > defined, etc.).
>
> A DOM is a DOM is a DOM. (Well, except for SVG's crazy-ass uDOM nonsense,
> but let's ignore that.) There are admittedly various ways of serialising a
> DOM: some are naive and more predictable, but can, in edge, cases end up
> with ill-formed markup; some are clever and less predictable, but always
> generate well-formed markup. Any test suite system would have to define
> its serialisation policy.
>
>
> > > > GRDDL could then say "for HTML-ish bytestreams, feed them to the
> > > > WHATWG algorithm to get XML, and feed that XML to normal GRDDL
> > > > algorithm to get RDF"...
> > >
> > > I'm with you up to the step where the output is XML, but I fail to see
> > > how the next step is something WHATWG would be interested in. Could
> > > you expand on this?
> >
> > The next step is for people who find value in RDF's abstract graph
> > structure but find the standard RDF/XML syntax unattractive. GRDDL lets
> > folk deploy using XML or XHTML-based formats of their own devising, but
> > map into RDF using XSLT so that RDF tools (eg. databases, SPARQL query
> > engines) can consume and exploit the data.
>
> Ah. Well, HTML5 is defined in terms of a DOM, so GRDDL is presumably,
> therefore, already supported.
Once you pick a serialization (or we do, for GRDDL), I guess so. Is
there a shopping list of DOM serialization candidates around somewhere?
Dan
>
> HTH,
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