Posted by David Dorward on 11/05/07 10:08

On Nov 4, 5:19 pm, Bone Ur <monstersquas...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Did you ever notice that most of what the w3c recommends is a restriction
> rather than an enhancement? Such policies are supposed to make things work
> better, which they may do about half the time - maybe. From what I recall,
> one cannot use the javascript method "document.write" in xhtml

That is just due to the way browsers have implemented it, not a
requirement of the specification.

> and you have to put something like [[CDATA && ]] (?) near the element terminators.

XML is simpler than SGML and doesn't have a means of saying "Ignore <
and & characters inside <foo> elments". This means XML can be parsed
without needing access to a DTD, and that XML parsers can be smaller
and faster than SGML parsers.

> Another of my favorites is the requirement of slash terminators for
> unclosed elements.

Ditto. You don't need a DTD to find out if the element is finished or
not.

(For all the above, read "DTD" as "DTD or another means of knowing the
specific XML dialect")

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