Re: ReSpec: Intent to depracate XHTML 1.0 save support

[email protected] Mon, 16 May 2016 21:41:54 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.org.w3c.specifications
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> On 16 May 2016, at 9:32 PM, Shane McCarron <[email protected]> wrote:
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> As I mentioned in the relevant PR, I think this is a bad idea.  There are a number of specs that were produced using XHTML 1, and if any of them need an update for errata of whatnot in the future, it will be impossible to do simply.  

Well, not impossible - but you'd have to update the markup. Or throw in a legacy version of ReSpec (so, not a big deal). 

Question: are any specs that are using xhtml 1.0 maintained today? Have they been updated in the last, say, 3-5 years? Are there examples of upcoming examples? 

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>> On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Marcos Caceres <[email protected]> wrote:
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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
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> Shane McCarron
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