- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:59:51 +0300
- To: public-html WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Jul 22, 2008, at 10:56, Henri Sivonen wrote: > * It would break compatibility with existing content (IIRC MIT > courseware, for example) that refers to a DTD that is not namespace- > well-formed (i.e. has colons in PI targets). Here's a page from MIT: http://www-math.mit.edu/18.013A/MathML/chapter07/section01.xhtml Not loading DTDs: http://validator.nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww-math.mit.edu%2F18.013A%2FMathML%2Fchapter07%2Fsection01.xhtml&schema=http%3A%2F%2Fs.validator.nu%2Fxhtml1-rdf-svg-mathml.rnc+http%3A%2F%2Fs.validator.nu%2Fxhtml10%2Fxhtml.sch+http%3A%2F%2Fc.validator.nu%2Fall-html4%2F&parser=xml Loading DTDs (and overriding the server-set "authoritative" Content- Type for them...): http://validator.nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww-math.mit.edu%2F18.013A%2FMathML%2Fchapter07%2Fsection01.xhtml&schema=http%3A%2F%2Fs.validator.nu%2Fxhtml1-rdf-svg-mathml.rnc+http%3A%2F%2Fs.validator.nu%2Fxhtml10%2Fxhtml.sch+http%3A%2F%2Fc.validator.nu%2Fall-html4%2F&parser=xmldtd&laxtype=yes Spec reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#Conformance (It seems that processors, strictly speaking, aren't required to treat violations of Namespaces as fatal, but doing so is off-the-shelf behavior in this case--not something I programmed to make a point.) -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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