Needs client side polyfill

[cshaa]

I've made a little parser in JavaScript. It's not finished yet. http://github.com/m93a/nml-parser

EDIT: Updating to 1.1.0, now it can export DOMDocument.

It's just a parser but it can be used:

• to make a html6-html5 convertor
• as a node.js html6 module
• in a browser extension for html6 compatibility
• to use NML in ajax, instead of XML
• to make your disk 20kB smaller
• and much more...

[OscarGodson]

Looks really cool. Hope to see more :)

[cshaa]

But before html6-html5 convertor, we need a CSS parser. And maybe a JS framework.

[OscarGodson]

Why do we need a CSS parser? CSS works fine with XML. And why a whole framework?

[cshaa]

OK, we can use xhtml with both html and form namespace prefixes set to http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml. There is just a problem with splitting media tag to img, video and audio. We have to:

• rewrite all the CSS selectors (media -> img, video, audio and #foo -> [id=foo])
• make document.getElementsByTagNameNS('media',"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"); select img, video and audio

Oh and also there's a problem with programmatically creating elements with ns prefix. That's impossible!

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[OscarGodson]

CSS selectors need to be general and work across XML. CSS doesn't have predefined elements you can select for example. You can style those elements fine right now: http://jsbin.com/iCuDEYE/2/edit

The only thing I can think of is adding 1 selector to make html\:foo a little nicer to write. I'm not sure what you mean by your 2nd example of the ID.

The JS thing should just be part of the polyfill.

[cshaa]

I don't mean creating a new spec - our problem is that all media tags will be replaced by a) img b) audio or c) video tag so your styles won't match any element. I don't see any way to make media tag work without changing DOM. That means that the convertor has to change every html:media to img, video or audio.

And the second problem with css is that #foo doesn't work with xml (in all modern browsers - that means all the browsers but MSIE).

Do you understand?

EDIT: Oops, to fast reading. I thought you said that CSS works across all the XML. My fault, correcting the comment.

[cshaa]

I've just found an alternative way 1) Leave html:media unchanged 2) Add a tag like abc:xyz at the end of the body element 3) Choose the type of media tag (image, video or audio) 4) Create image, video or audio tag as a child of abc:xyz 5) Make the video/audio/image tag cover the media using javascript and css absolute position

Pros:

• no css modifications needed
• no JS framework needed

Cons:

• not a valid xHTML
• abc:xyz can be still detected using JavaScript
• media's computed styles have to be checked every hunderth of a second (not exactly :D)
• no animation and transition support

[cshaa]

After a short break (not even a year), I've got a new update! HTML6 Polyfill Beta can be found at m93a/nml-polyfill.