Welcome to WebHeadStart.org

Web Technologies

Sponsored By

WebHeadStart.org is currently in beta.
Please pardon our appearance as we work to provide you with the most comprehensive reference on today's web technologies.

Interested in advertising on WebHeadStart? Become an advertising partner today!

[WWW-HTML Mailing List Archive Home] [Messages By Thread] [Messages By Date]

Re: [Structure Module] Renaming the <html> element to more semantic name

From: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:27:51 -0500
Message-ID: <abd6c8010511132027l4d22679aw3ac1b35766d74bb8@mail.gmail.com>
To: www-html@w3.org

On 11/13/05, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au> wrote:
>
> Ai / Hiro wrote:
> > We markup a title with <title/> just because it is a "title". I think we
> > should markup a document with <document/> just because it is a
> > "document" in terms of the meanings of the content.
>
> I don't think so, it says nothing about what type of document it is.
> Would you suggest the same root element for a DocBook document?  I think
> <document> is far too generic and that <html> is the most appropriate
> choice.

Ok, let's stop right there. There are lots of different titles and
lots of different paragraphs, but we can all use title and p.
Namespaces are what says what kind of document it is much as it
specifies everything else. The argument that you have to doubly encode
that information just doesn't fly with me.

--

Orion Adrian
Received on Monday, 14 November 2005 04:27:58 GMT
Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS! Site Map | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | WebHeadStart.org © 2005 All Rights Reserved.