Re: Accepting redundant xmlns declarations

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 11:30:02PM +0100, Nick Kew wrote:

> > is well-formed and valid, although the ns declaration is redundant.
> 
> As XML, yes.  As HTML no.  This is one of those areas where XHTML
> is trying to conform to two mutually incompatible standards.

And failing it seems :)

> > This sort of output comes from docbook XML processed by xsltproc
> 
> You can cure that by adjusting your stylesheet to put the xmlns
> attributes in the root element, or suppress it altogether.

The stylesheets require the xmlns on every element, according to
Norman Walsh. So I think this means the fault lies in xsltproc
for not supressing the declarations.

Thanks everybody
john

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