Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 10:53:05 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> Cc: www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: XHTML and the website Message-ID: <20030406095305.GB97856@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20030405134918.B43794@freebsdmall.com> References: <20030405151719.GA75703@submonkey.net> <20030405134918.B43794@freebsdmall.com>
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On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 01:49:18PM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > What are the benefits of the full transition? What cool new XML tools > will this allow us to use? How will this enhance the look and feel of > the website? etc.. I don't know that there would be any other benefits; all this would get us is a web site that validates. Perhaps someone else more familiar with the tools available could offer a suggestion, but in my opinion XHTML, by it's very nature, is lacking most of the benefits of XML anyway. [ Having said that, having XHTML documents that validate would be more useful than having ones that don't ;) ] > I'm not against it, but it seems like a lot of work that could be > better spent improving the Handbook or something if there aren't some > more apparent benefits. That's a fair point; since there's still work to be done before this can work properly anyway, I'll background it for now, but at some point I'd like to revisit this (ever since I noticed this it's been bugging me). Ceri --
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