[whatwg] The problems with namespaces in text/html

[Elliotte Harold]

Henri Sivonen wrote:

> Personally, I think MathML is so hopelessly verbose for hand authoring 
> that this really shouldn't be about enabling hand authoring 
> MathML-in-HTML5 but about enabling MathML-in-HTML5 (perhaps generated by 
> a future version of itex2mml or similar) to be served through content 
> management systems that are not built around a SAX pipeline or an XML 
> tree API or XSLT but are built as tag soup systems and simply cannot 
> guarantee well-formedness. I mean systems like WordPress and MovableType.

Please don't confuse what these systems won't do with what they can't 
do.  I personally wrote a system like this that maintained full 
well-formedness at all times despite TagSoup input. In fact, that was 
one of the easiest parts of what it did. See

http://cafe.elharo.com/web/mokka/

Today's tools and libraries make it easy for anyone using anything more 
advanced than a text editor and FTP to publish well-formed documents. 
Tools that don't do that by default should be fixed.

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