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At 09:16 AM 9/16/99 -0700, Walter Underwood wrote: >At 04:41 PM 9/15/99 -0400, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: >> >> [...] the HTML 4.0 spec defined three, and XHTML was required to be >>as direct a mapping from HTML 4.0 to XML as possible. > >This is a rationale. Including this with the recent draft >would have saved us all a lot of e-mail traffic. This was said way back at the beginning (August 29) http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/xml-dev-Aug-1999/0370.html Quoting myself "No, we've not confused them. We happen to have three 'flavors' of XHTML 1.0 (the first deliverable from the XHTML project, not the end sum of our work), that essentially map to the three flavors of HTML 4.0." But apparently nobody wanted to hear it. Ann --- Author of Effective Web Design: Master the Essentials Coming in September --- Mastering XML Founder, WebGeek Communications http://www.webgeek.com Vice President-Finance, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org Director, HWG Online Education http://www.hwg.org/services/classes xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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