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Trying to think about the most important requirements for HTML for developers. Here's a comment I made earlier today: > HTML is not just data for web browsers, it’s data that can be used in > many different applications, or transformed into other HTML > representations to be presented in different ways. > > This data is used together with data from other source. For screen > scraping and data integration, it is common for some of the content to > be HTML content, and other content to be represented as XML (the > original source may or may not be physical XML). These tools should be > able to work on all the data the application needs. > > If HTML is only data that can be read by human beings in web browsers, > it’s much less valuable. > At first blush, I think the main requirements are: 1. Provide an XML representation that uses namespaces correctly 2. If the native HTML representation is not XML, make sure that the XML and HTML representations round-trip correctly 3. Use namespaces correctly even in the HTML representation when merging vocabularies 4. (Preferably) Require web browsers to support either encoding Is this about right? If not, what *are* the real requirements for a good HTML syntax for those of us who process HTML as data downstream, transform it to other HTML dialects, etc? Jonathan
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