Re: Possible error in document: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xhtml-modularization-20010410/xhtml-modularization.html from Masayasu Ishikawa on 2001-05-18 (www-html-editor@w3.org from April to June 2001)

From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 17:48:55 +0900
To: houghtoa@oclc.org
Cc: www-html-editor@w3.org
Message-Id: <20010518174855D.mimasa@w3.mag.keio.ac.jp>

"Houghton,Andrew" <houghtoa@oclc.org> wrote:

> I18N and 'lang.attrib' specifiy the attribute as 'xml:lang' rather than just
> 'lang' this is a departure from HTML 4.0 which specifies it as 'lang'.  Was
> it the intention of the specification to break HTML 4.0 encoded files?

It was indeed intentional.  See:

    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html-editor/2000JanMar/0030

Regards,
-- 
Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium

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