[Bug 8989] Allowance for attributes starting with xmlns: should be stated as a requirement on documents and conformance checkers, not on the HTML5 spec

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8989


Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>  2010-05-05 02:32:01 ---
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Status: Fixed

Change Description: 

Moved requirement from HTML5 spec, to HTML5 documents and conformance checkers:

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/rdfa/drafts/ED-rdfa-in-html-20100504/Overview.html.diff?r1=1.5&r2=1.6&f=h

"""
Since RDFa uses attributes starting with xmlns: to specify CURIE prefixes, any
attribute starting with a case-insensitive match on the text string "xmlns:"
must be preserved in the DOM or other tree-like model that is passed to the
RDFa Processor. For documents conforming to this specification, attributes with
names that have a case insensitive prefix matching "xmlns:" must be considered
conforming. Conformance checkers must accept attribute names that have a case
insensitive prefix matching "xmlns:" as conforming.
"""

Rationale:

Conformance requirements should be on the document and on conformance checkers,
not the HTML5 spec.

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Received on Wednesday, 5 May 2010 02:32:03 UTC