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Monthly Archives: July 2006

Bitten by text html for XHTML documents

The W3C “XHTML media types” note mentions that:
XHTML documents served as ‘text/html’ will not be processed as XML [XML10], e.g. well-formedness errors may not be detected by user agents. Also be aware that HTML rules will be applied for DOM and style sheets (see C.11 and C13 of [XHTML1] respectively).
I have been bitten by this [...]

Traduction automatique et survie des dinosaures

En 1998, j’étais responsable du support européen de deuxième niveau chez Sybase, pas peu fier d’être partenaire officiel de la coupe du monde. Compte tenu de la visibilité de l’évènement, nous étions tous sur le pied de guerre et d’astreinte 24h/24 et 7j/7.
Pour détendre l’atmosphère, j’avais eu l’idée bizarre de faire traduire la page d’accueil [...]

RELAX NG and W3C XML Schema compared (continued)

A lot of comparisons have already been published on this topic, but there are still plenty of misunderstanding when comparing W3C XML Schema so called Object Oriented features with RELAX NG patterns.
Many people complain that RELAX NG does not support complex type derivation nor substitution groups.
There are two ways to look at these features:

If you [...]