[microformats-discuss] Re: XML & microformats (WAS: Take 3)

[Robert Sayre]

On 9/18/05, Lucas Gonze <lucas.gonze at gmail.com> wrote:
> For example, if you embed an HTML link element in another format
> without enclosing it in a head element enclosed in an html element, it
> may still make intuitive sense but it doesn't make formal sense.  Or,
> there is the issue of losing the DTD of the HTML version your link
> element is based on.

The W3C has already done this. It's called "XHTML Modularization". 
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/

There is a discrete "Link Module"
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/dtd_module_defs.html#a_module_Link

That said, I'm not sure it matters. In practice, I suspect any
occurance of an XHTML element will have a DTD applied to it whether
it's declared or not.

Robert Sayre