Re: Placing elements in the HTML namespace

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Sam Ruby wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote on 01/15/2009 02:43:47 PM:
> > On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, James Graham wrote:
> > >
> > > The requirement that UAs place all HTML elements in the HTML 
> > > namespace does not make sense for all classes of UA. For html5lib I 
> > > plan to make it optional whether HTML elements are assigned to the 
> > > HTML namespace so that people using APIs that have a significant 
> > > namespace tax do not have to pay that tax in the common case.
> >
> > This wouldn't be non-conforming, since you don't expose a (W3C) DOM. 
> > The requirement is a black-box requirement that is only testable if 
> > the UA also supports Selectors (with namespaces), XPath, W3C DOM 
> > scripting, or such like.
> 
> One of the possible backends of the existing html5lib parser *is* a W3C 
> DOM.

Well for that one we presumably don't want to make it conforming to not 
have the namespace set, right? Since that would make code written to the 
API non-portable, which is exactly what we're trying to avoid.

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