- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:40:50 +0200
- To: "Ben Boyle" <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:34:46 +0200, Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com> wrote: > Right... thanks Anne and Lachlan > > Is the "null namespace" note really relevant to HTML? Does HTML even > have a concept of namespaces? Why make this note? Once HTML is parsed it does. (The parsing algorithm creates a (namespace-aware) DOM.) The note is made to inform authors who know how HTML parsing works and know that xmlns is placed in a namespace in XML that for HTML documents it is indeed a bit strange to declare such an attribute (although it is legal to make conversion of existing content easier). > I hope it's becoming clear how confusing these implementation > specifics will be for authors, how they get in the way of > understanding the markup rules. I appreciate they all have a purpose, > but I'd rather those details were stuffed in appendices where I'd only > encounter them if I really dug into details. Specifications are meant to cover the nasty little details. If a specification were just an authoring guide it wouldn't be of much use to picky authors who'd like to know how things are actually working. You'd just have another HTML 4. > [...] -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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