Re: ReSpec: Intent to depracate XHTML 1.0 save support

Marcos Caceres <[email protected]> Mon, 16 May 2016 12:14:49 +1000

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On May 16, 2016 at 12:13:39 PM, Marcos Caceres ([email protected]) wrote:
> Hi,
> XHTML 1.0 has been long deprecated in favor of XHTML5. In ReSpec,
> we've been allowing folks to save as XHTML 1.0, but I'm wondering if
> we can retire that capability?
>  
> Can anyone think of any valid reason to keep it around? It seems
> harmful, as saving to a conforming XHTML 1.0 doc means we strip out
> useful structuring tags and aria attributes.

Relevant bug: 
https://github.com/w3c/respec/issues/760