Hi Len,
--- "Bullard, Claude L (Len)"
<> wrote:
> Your experiences are much the same as mine.
> As Tim Bray says, View Source is a primary reason
> for the spread of HTML, Javascript and so forth.
>
> However, back on topic: as pointed out by others,
> HTML
> might be called semi-structured, but I think the
> concept of structure is misleading because markup
> is structured by definition. OTOH, even highly
> structured XML can be quite meaningless which is
> why for XML and HTML work wonderfully well for the
> humans and vary a lot for computers. Best practices
> cover some but not all of the gaps. In my opinion,
> naming is a harder and more important practice to
> master than structuring. In many cases, when markup
> fails semantically, naming is at fault. Naming is
> hard.
> Best practices for naming are even harder to come
> by.
Since HTML is a presentational vocabulary, it is flat
namespaced, where XML is hierarchically namespaced.
Would this mean HTML will be un-structured as reasoned
by me earlier? And XML will be structured. But I agree
with you on the point that HTML can be treated as
semi-structured.
Is this topic worth discussing? HTML is so popular and
beautifully nice, that we should just use it :)
Probably we should discuss more about XML on xml-dev..
Regards,
Mukul
> len
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