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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 14:02:25 +0200
From: Nicola Ken Barozzi <nicolaken@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: XHTML2 I have read it and I like it... GO READ IT!
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Bruno Dumon wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback, Nicola.
> 
> When I was writing my message I was thinking about pure documentation.
> 
> However, it seems that the forrest dtd should be more some kind of
> intermediate format between the content sources and the actual
> presentation. In that case, I think that it urgently needs more
> flexibility and features, and html is then of course the logical and
> appropriate choice.

Yes.
General documentation can be written directly via this dtd, and also 
general content can use this, but more specific DTDs can simply use this 
  in some parts (see faq and howto DTDs) or simply use it as an 
intermediate format (JavadocXML).

> BTW, as for html 4 and the deprecated presentation markup: it was
> already removed in the strict dtd, which is the recommended one. Of
> course xhtml2 is still cleaner in that regard.

Yup :-)

> On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 22:52, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
> 
>>Bruno Dumon wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 23:44, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>XHTML2 working draft
>>>>http://www.w3c.org/TR/2002/WD-xhtml2-20020805/Overview.html#toc
>>>>
>>>
> [big snip]


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