• From: rjelliffe <rjelliffe@a...>
• To: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:56:06 +1100

 On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:45:56 +0000, David Carlisle <davidc@n...> 
 wrote:
> On 14/12/2010 14:38, rjelliffe wrote:
>> I was thinking about how it behaves with XML with names not in
>> HTML/MATHML/SVG.
>
> well there the main (only?) thing that is unfortunate is that it
> parses <foo/> as a start tag.
>
> namespace declarations are ignored: unknown elements go into the
> namespace of their parent, so xhtml normally. But that can be
> explained easily enough "html doesn't do namespaces"
>
> but fixing up the dom tree after
> <aaa><xxx/><yyy/></aaa>
> parses as
> <aaa><xxx><yyy></yyy></xxx></aaa>
> is a pain.


 So lets get rid of the short form <x/> then! And gain end-tag omission.

 Cheers
 Rick

• References:
  • MicroXML
    • From: James Clark <jjc@j...>
  • Re: MicroXML
    • From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@i...>
  • XML5: Re: MicroXML
    • From: rjelliffe <rjelliffe@a...>
  • Re: XML5: Re: MicroXML
    • From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
  • Re: XML5: Re: MicroXML
    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@i...>
  • Re: XML5: Re: MicroXML
    • From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
  • Re: XML5: Re: MicroXML
    • From: rjelliffe <rjelliffe@a...>
  • Re: XML5: Re: MicroXML
    • From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>