- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:38:52 +0000
- To: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- CC: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>, "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>, HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
James Graham wrote: > T.V Raman wrote: >> Lets just say that I continue to be sceptical about there >> existing a language definition for authors. And as others have >> stated, some kind of tutorial does not a language definition make. > > OK, let me be more specific. I suggest that the information required to > "tell me how to write my document correctly" is in section 3 [1] and > section 8.1 [2] of the current specification. Can you be more specific > about why you believe I am wrong? > > [1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#semantics > [2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#writing0 Maybe because the third line of your first reference states "This section is non-normative" ? A /language definition/ must be normative, otherwise it is not a definition but is at best a tutorial. Cf. "Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68" v. "Informal Introduction to ALGOL 68". The first is a /language definition/, the second is an informal guide to the language. I, like many other contributors to this thread, would like to see the language definition factored out; there is little (read: zero) point in discussing exactly how an element should be processed until such time as the group are agreed that such an element should exist at all. Philip TAYLOR
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