> Hi,
>
> In the thread on renaming the html element type
> (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2005Nov/0061.html ), Sjoerd
> Visscher wrote:
> <blockquote>
> I see only one good reason to change this, and that is to get rid of the
> html/head/body structure. The latest WD makes a big step towards putting
> meta data in the content. This makes it possible to drop the head
> completely.
> </blockquote>
>
> It is not necessary to get rid of the head, just because it is possible to
> do this. Some people may want a clean separation between metadata and
> content, as described in the Head-Body design pattern
> (http://www.xmlpatterns.com/HeadBodyMain.shtml ). If there are use cases
> for
> this pattern, why prevent people from using it?

Given the direction XHTML 2 has taken with mixing meta data more with the
content, this argument can go one of two ways: either the head-body design
pattern is a bad one (with which I would agree) or is is a good one. If
the latter, then it should also be possible to use the head-body
separation with other elements. (why prevent people from using it?)

greetings,

Sjoerd Visscher
http://w3future.com/weblog/ 

PS. In the mean time, let people get used to the idea that xml is not the
ultimate data/document format, as there's clearly a need to have
attributes that can contain structured data, not just strings.