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HTML/XML Task Force

28 Jun 2011

Agenda

See also: IRC log

Attendees

Present
John, Norm, Mike, Anne, Robert Leif, Henri
Regrets
Noah
Chair
Norm
Scribe
Norm

Contents


Norm apologizes for messing up GMT in the agenda. And for the long delay since our last meeting

Accept this agenda?

-> http://www.w3.org/2010/html-xml/2011/06/28-agenda

Accepted.

Accept minutes from the previous meeting?

-> http://www.w3.org/2010/html-xml/2011/03/08-minutes

Accepted.

Next meeting: 12 July 2011 (in two weeks)

Accepted.

Review of comments

-> http://www.w3.org/2010/html-xml/2011/06/comments/

Norm: I closed comment 001 as it wasn't really a comment.

Comment 002 from David Carlisle

Norm: I think these are all editorial and am happy to accept them. Any disagreement?

None heard:

Comment 003 from Julian Reschke

Norm: I'm of two minds on this one. I think of XML as having a DTD language and a set of vocabularies.

Henri: I think Julian's point is well taken, I suggest we call it a framework.

Norm: I'm happy to take that as editorial direction and make a stab at it.
... Any objections?

None heard.

Comment 004 from Noah Mendelsohn

Norm: Isn't really acomment...

Comment 005 from Robin Berjon

-> http://www.w3.org/2010/html-xml/2011/06/comments/#C005

Norm: The first two are editorial.
... Robin suggests we just say "polyglot has limited applicability"

Henri: I think Robin's comments all make sense.
... I'd say that the the parser doesn't actually guarantee that the output is valid, only that it's well defined.

John: Tagsoup is the same way.

Norm: Ok, if there's general agreement about Robin's comments, I'll attempt to address them all.
... Any objections?

None heard.

Comment 006 from Henri Sivonen

Henri: The first comment is about the fact that the draft is misleading. It doesn't "just work". It's way overoptimistic. There are issues with, for example, empty tags.

Norm: Perhaps I overstated the case. I'll try to soften that statement. Or at least make it more accurate.

Henri: I suggest just removing the paragraph.

Norm; That looks reasonable to me.

Henri: The substance of my next comment matches the substance of one of Robin's.

Norm: Ok, I'll try to fix that as well.

Henri: My next comment is about interfacing subsystems. Using the HTML parser when you have XHTML5 in a larger document is just weird. I would assume that you wouldn't clip anything out and hand it to an HTML5 parser. You'd pass the parsed object model around, not the text.
... I don't think the HTML5 parser needs to be involved in any way.
... And then there's something about MIME and such and I think that steps outside the scope of using an XML document as a container.
... It seems out-of-place.

Norm: That was explicitly called out as one of the possible solutions when we were considering the use case.

Henri: What the document says about the script tag is factually incorrect.
... what you get in the DOM is not escaped in any way.

Norm: Yes, thats's a totally misleading statement. I'll fix that.
... Any other questions or comments about Henri's comments?

None heard.

Comment 007 from Kurt Cagle

Norm: I think this is about the same paragraph Robin and Henri commented on.
... Does anyone have any suggestions for the illustration Kurt suggests?

None heard.

Henri: I think there's a slippery slope towards rewriting the polyglot guide if we go that direction.
... I think we can provide some examples without trying to be exhaustive.

Bob expresses a desire for some examples.

Yeah, sorry Yves, I borked the agenda because of DST

Comment 008 from Noah Mendelsohn

Norm: I think Noah and John have both observed that making XML "more forgiving of errors" is a harder problem than the draft suggests.
... I'll try to improve that.

Any other business?

Adjourned.

Summary of Action Items

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