[whatwg] Fwd: Re: [xhtml-role] Extensibility of XHTML 1 and XHTML 1.1 (PR#9627)

[Ian Hickson]

Anne van Kesteren forwarded this from Shane McCarron:
> XHTML2 will be using the same namespace as XHTML1, and there will not be
> two modules.

This has been an "issue" in the XHTML2 draft for some time:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/conformance.html#s_conform_issue_4


On 9/12/06, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au> wrote:
> Great news!  I wonder how open the HTML WG will be with regards to
> working with the WHATWG and HTML 5, especially now that the 2 specs will
> share the same namespace.  If we don't resolve the incompatibilities,
> one of the specs will simply be doomed to failure.

I would be more concerned about how they are intending on making
XHTML2 compatible with XHTML1 than with the WHATWG work. For example,
XHTML2's <input> element has basically completely different semantics
than XHTML1's. Even simple elements like <img> and <q> are
incompatible across the two versions, in the current draft.

-- 
Ian Hickson