Re: Another possible compromise re namespaces in HTML

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:53 AM, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> wrote:
> The html5 parser special cases unprefixed svg and mathml elements
> (only) so unless I misunderstand what you meant above then these two
> items are contradictory. There are no "standard prefixes" for svg and
> mathml, if you want to make an xhtml document work also in the html
> serialisation then redefining the default namespace is the only option
> supported by the curent draft.

I believe he is referring to the 'common' prefixes used for svg and
mathml in xml - "svg" and "math".  I don't believe the use of
"standard" was intended to refer to the HTML5 standard.

~TJ

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