HTML5 is taking over the Web. XML and XML-based toolsets are used to create, manage, interchange, and manipulate much of the content that is published as HTML5. XMLers and HTML5ers may each find the other more than a little peculiar; but it is time to get past our differences and discuss how our differing strengths can be combined to benefit each other, our users, and the information eco-system as a whole.
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HTML5 and XML: Mending Fences
Monday August 4, 2014
Despite a decade of efforts dedicated to making XML the markup language of the Web, today it is HTML5 that has taken on that role. While HTML5 can in part be made to work with an XML syntax, reliance on that feature is rare compared to use of HTML5's own syntax.
Over the years, the competition between these two approaches has led to animosity and frustration. But both XML and HTML5 are now clearly here to stay, and with the upcoming standardisation of HTML5 in 2014 it is now time to take stock and see how both technologies — and both communities — can coöperate constructively.
There are many environments in which these two markup languages are brought to interact. Additionally, there is much that they can learn from one another. We are looking forward to sharing experiences and ideas that bring the two together.
The Program for the Symposium on HTML5 and XML includes:
- Mending fences and saving babies Robin Berjon
- The Library of Congress Recommended Format Specifications Ardie Bausenbach & Kate Zwaard, Library of Congress
- Non-Extensible Markup Language Domenic Denicola, Google
- XML on the Web R. Alexander Miłowski, University of Edinburgh
- Practical processing of HTML5 as XML and XML as HTML5 Phil Fearon, DeltaXML Ltd
- Rich Hypermedia: Making readers first class citizens on the web Steven J. DeRose
- Lightning talks Symposium participants
- Where should the Web go in the next 25 years?
Chair: Robin Berjon
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