On Mon, May 11, 2009, Daniel Muller wrote: > I am surprised that the validator claims that xmlns should be mandatory on the > html element of xhtml documents. Yes, per http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#normative > As far as I know, xmlns is declared as #FIXED. IIRC, the DTD declares it as #FIXED because a DTD can't express both the fact that the attribute is required, AND that its value is fixed. The spec prose has precedence over the DTD, here. HTH -- olivierReceived on Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:02:34 GMT
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