- From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 12:27:31 +0200
- To: www-html-editor@w3.org
Joe Vornehm wrote: > Would you please clarify this issue? Some points in your questions are clear: - RFC 2396 was obsoleted by STD 68 some years ago, but the W3C didn't bother to update the XHTML 1 standard and DTDs so far. - DTDs cannot formally express a datatype for URIs in attribute values, let alone for absolute URIs, at best you get a hint where to find the specification (e.g., *NOT* in the obsolete RFC 2396, or *NOT* in the obsolete RFC 3066, etc.) in the form of a DTD comment. - XHTML 1 is designed to approximate HTML 4 as far as possible down to stuff like "NMTOKEN can't be an empty lang=''". It is arguably not the job of XHTML 1 to fix such HTML 4 issues. Frank
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