- From: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:17:53 -0500
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
- Cc: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Hi Anne, On Aug 1, 2007, at 3:20 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:54:50 +0200, Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com> > wrote: >> I agree the current draft is more precise. I question whether that >> precision is at all necessary. If UAs are required to ignore any >> attribute with the name "xmlns" or starting with "xmnls:" then the >> value of the attribute is irrelevant. > > If the value of the xmlns attribute is not http://www.w3.org/1999/ > xhtml the whole XHTML transition idea is false and the author > probably made a mistake. I think it's hard for us to know, in advance, how authors will use this. It could be that the author maintains a list of namespace declarations on an HTML root element in anticipation of using them on another XML root element later on. In processing, the author will add a corresponding namespace prefix to all of the HTML elements later (when it's turned into XML). Who knows how this would be used? It just seems a little odd to tell authors this attribute is meaningless for text/html, but they better make sure it has the right value. Take care, Rob
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