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On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Liam R E Quin wrote: > On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:38 -0800, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> On Dec 16, 2010, at 14:13, Liam R E Quin wrote: >> >>> This <syntax /> came from SGML and was already legal in HTML from a >>> formal standards perspective. >> >> My understanding is that Annex K was added to SGML in late 1997 for >> the specific purpose of making XML 1.0 a subset of SGML. This was >> after HTML had been deployed. > > Yes. But the net syntax was already in SGML:1986. And for possible explanations of the SGML commmitments, and tortured process of determining what to do in the profiling of SGML for XML, one can consult this record of arcana: The SGML FAQ Book http://xml.coverpages.org/deroseFAQ-TOC.html Amazon thinks the book is still in print. And yes, I am enjoying this discussion, from many points of view. - Robin Robin Cover OASIS, Director of Information Services Editor, Cover Pages and XML Daily Newslink Email: robin@o... Staff bio: http://www.oasis-open.org/who/staff.php#cover Cover Pages: http://xml.coverpages.org/ Newsletter: http://xml.coverpages.org/newsletterArchive.html Tel: +1 972-296-1783 > >> Also, I believe no IETF or W3C HTML spec that pretends HTML to be an >> application of SGML actually enables the NET-enabled start tags. >> >> Am I mistaken? > > I'm not sure about "pretends to be HTML". SGML allows any *document > instance* to enable them. > > However, > http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1866.txt > has > SHORTTAG YES > which results in enabling the NET feature. > > So it was in HTML at least as far back as 1995. > > It was probably done so that attribute values didn't need to > be quoted as long as they parsed as SGML tokens, but had the > consequence of enabling a whole bunch of other <i/features/ :) > > The SGML spec, and the SGML declaration, are both extraordinarily > cryptic in this area. The SGML Handbook does help, but annotated > mud is still mud. > > We're a bit far afield really, except that it's not correct to > blame XML for introducing a syntax that was arguably already a > part of HTML (and accepted by at least some tools). > > Liam > > -- > Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ > Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ > Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > >
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