- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:33:33 +0200
- To: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>
- CC: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org
Philip Taylor wrote: > Julian Reschke wrote: >> How about stating that any element with an attribute "xmlns", being >> set to something different from "" or the XHTML namespace name, >> implies <ext>? > > Lots of existing content uses attributes named "xmlns" -- see e.g. > <http://philip.html5.org/data/xmlns.txt>. (Only 45 pages in the data set > had XML content-types, so this is pretty much all text/html). It seems > that compatibility requirements will make it impossible to base anything > on the "xmlns" attribute. Well, a similar argument can probably applied to *any* change in the language, such as adding new elements. BR, Julian
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