- From: Olivier Thereaux <ot@artbeat.me>
- Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 20:01:52 +0200
- To: Daniel Muller <Daniel.Muller@ec-lyon.fr>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
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 -- olivier
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