[whatwg] XML data islands related question

[Randy]

As far as I'm aware, Data Blocks should be or is part of HTML5. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Using_XML_Data_Islands_in_Mozilla for more info. 

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On 7 feb. 2013, at 15:47, "Neerja Anand" <neerja at kynex.com> wrote:

> Hello - it appears that XML data islands (originally created by Microsoft)
> have been discontinued in the newer browsers. We wanted to request they
> could be supported as an addon/plugin into the browser if not incorporated
> into the browser by default. We understand that this was a Microsoft only
> feature but they are extremely helpful to our business and their
> discontinuation would highly affect our business. Our request is to make
> them as an HTML5 standard, so all browsers would then have to support this
> feature. This would make the life of us developers much easier. We are not
> asking for Microsoft's version of XML data islands specifically, but would
> want this feature as a standard in some version. We noticed there is
> something new called Data Block which may be similar to XML data islands,
> but couldn't find much information on it to proceed. If you know of Data
> Blocks being an alternative to XML data islands, then if you could provide
> some documentation or point us to the location where we can get more
> information (with examples on how to use them) that would be very helpful as
> well.
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> Any feedback on this would be appreciated.
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> Thanks very much in advance!
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> Neerja Anand
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> neerja at kynex.com
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