- From: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:03:47 -0500
- To: Steven Pemberton <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl>
- CC: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Steven Pemberton wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:50:52 +0200, Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk> wrote: > >> For the same reason, xmlns:foo attributes aren't allowed in HTML4 >> either. > > Actually, to allow for future changes, the spec says: > > "If a user agent encounters an attribute it does not recognize, it > should ignore the entire attribute specification (i.e., the attribute > and its value)." > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/appendix/notes.html#notes-invalid-docs > > In other words, it should act as if it weren't there. So it is > allowed, but no meaning is defined. > XHTML 1.* say something similar. As does XHTML M12N 1.0 and 1.1 - see [1] step 6. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/conformance.html#s_conform_user_agent > > Steven -- Shane P. McCarron Phone: +1 763 786-8160 x120 Managing Director Fax: +1 763 786-8180 ApTest Minnesota Inet: shane@aptest.com
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