- From: Ian Hickson via cvs-syncmail <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:46:35 +0000
- To: public-html-commits@w3.org
Update of /sources/public/html5/spec
In directory hutz:/tmp/cvs-serv21707
Modified Files:
Overview.html
Log Message:
Allow xml:lang= in HTML in certain very specific cases to ease migration. (whatwg r2063)
Index: Overview.html
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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
retrieving revision 1.1240
retrieving revision 1.1241
diff -u -d -r1.1240 -r1.1241
--- Overview.html 12 Aug 2008 22:27:53 -0000 1.1240
+++ Overview.html 12 Aug 2008 22:46:32 -0000 1.1241
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@
<code>title</code> attribute</a>
<li><a href="#the-lang"><span class=secno>3.3.3.3. </span>The
- <code>lang</code> (HTML only) and <code>xml:lang</code> (XML only)
+ <code>lang</code> and <code>xml:lang</code> (XML only)
attributes</a>
<li><a href="#the-xmlbase"><span class=secno>3.3.3.4. </span>The
@@ -7944,7 +7944,7 @@
title=attr-title><a href="#title">title</a></code> content attribute.
<h5 id=the-lang><span class=secno>3.3.3.3. </span>The <dfn id=lang
- title=attr-lang><code>lang</code></dfn> (HTML only) and <dfn id=xmllang
+ title=attr-lang><code>lang</code></dfn> and <dfn id=xmllang
title=attr-xml-lang><code>xml:lang</code></dfn> (XML only) attributes</h5>
<p>The <code title=attr-lang><a href="#lang">lang</a></code> attribute
@@ -7965,17 +7965,31 @@
primary language is unknown.
<p>The <code title=attr-lang><a href="#lang">lang</a></code> attribute may
- be used on elements of <a href="#html-">HTML documents</a>. Authors must
- not use the <code title=attr-lang><a href="#lang">lang</a></code>
- attribute in <a href="#xml-documents">XML documents</a>.
+ be used on any <a href="#html-elements" title="HTML elements">HTML
+ element</a>.
<p>The <code title=attr-xml-lang><a href="#xmllang">xml:lang</a></code>
- attribute may be used on elements of <a href="#xml-documents">XML
- documents</a>. Authors must not use the <code title=attr-xml-lang><a
- href="#xmllang">xml:lang</a></code> attribute in <a href="#html-">HTML
- documents</a>.</p>
- <!-- technically this is redundant
- with the XML spec -->
+ attribute may be used on <a href="#html-elements">HTML elements</a> in <a
+ href="#xml-documents">XML documents</a>, as well as elements in other
+ namespaces if the relevant specifications allow it (in particular, MathML
+ and SVG allow <code title=attr-xml-lang><a
+ href="#xmllang">xml:lang</a></code> attributes to be specified on their
+ elements). If both the <code title=attr-lang><a
+ href="#lang">lang</a></code> attribute and the <code
+ title=attr-xml-lang><a href="#xmllang">xml:lang</a></code> attribute are
+ specified on the same element, they must have exactly the same value.
+
+ <p>Authors must not use the <code title=attr-xml-lang><a
+ href="#xmllang">xml:lang</a></code> attribute (that is, the <code
+ title="">lang</code> attribute with the <code title="">xml</code> prefix
+ in the <code title="">http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace</code>
+ namespace) in <a href="#html-">HTML documents</a>. To ease migration to
+ and from XHTML, authors may specify an attribute in no namespace with no
+ prefix and with the localname <code title="">xml:lang</code> on <a
+ href="#html-elements">HTML elements</a> in <a href="#html-">HTML
+ documents</a>, but such attributes must only be specified if a <code
+ title=attr-lang><a href="#lang">lang</a></code> attribute is also
+ specified, and both attributes must have the same value.
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