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This post is by David Baron, who is a developer at Mozilla and is Mozilla’s representative to the W3C Advisory Committee.

This is my second post about Mozilla’s participation in the W3C’s Advisory Committee (see the first post).

There’s currently a review (ending May 12) of the Proposed Edited Recommendation of XHTML Modularization 1.1, Second Edition, produced by the XHTML 2 working group. This specification allows authors of DTDs and XML schema to make custom versions of HTML. To do that, it defines the syntax of HTML in terms of XML schema datatypes. These definitions are not necessarily compatible with other HTML specifications or with implementations of HTML.

We don’t see this specification as relevant to how browsers implement HTML or how Web authors writing content for the public Web write HTML. Its approach is not compatible with the approach in HTML5, and we intend to follow HTML5′s approach. Because of this, we have not followed its development closely, and we don’t see it as worth our time to gather a detailed list of objections that would be required to object to its advancement (as Björn Höhrmann did for some other specifications, which were rescinded).

Therefore, we chose to:

• abstain from the review, and
• check the box indicating that Mozilla “does not expect to produce or
  use products or content addressed by this specification”.