[Bug 14155] Drop the conformance requirement banning xml:base in HTML. If authors want to use xml:base with script in an "HTML document", there's no reason why should stop them. (It can be useful to implement new URL(url, baseurl) polyfill, for instance)

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14155

--- Comment #2 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-10-19 23:18:57 UTC ---
(Because we define conformance for DOMs, not strings, and it would be
misleading to people if we said xml:base was allowed but when they tried to use
it it generated invalid DOMs due to the lack of parser support for xml:* in
HTML.)

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