I'll defer to Julian on matters of HTML; he's braver than I ;) On 22/04/2010, at 5:01 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 22.04.2010 06:42, Mark Nottingham wrote: >> For the issues around formats, have you considered using content negotiation? >> >> http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.html#sec-12.1 > > +1 > >> WRT XHTML, it's a candidate for deprecation for a different reason; the W3C is moving away from XHTML as part of the HTML5 effort. Current fashion for this type of problem is to use microformats / RDFa, but that's still work-in-progress from a standards standpoint, AIUI. >> ... > > As a member of the W3C HTML WG I have to disagree with Mark. HTML5 defines and maintains both serializations. It *does* spend lots of spec space to define tag-soup parsing, yes, but that's simply because that format is so broken; the XML variant is still there. > > Best regards, Julian -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/ _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf