- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:37:30 +0200
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On 28.09.2010 14:29, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:20:25 +0200, Julian Reschke > <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: >> On 28.09.2010 14:13, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >>> Valid in XML specifically refers to DTDs so that seems out of scope >>> since we do not have those. >> >> So why does the spec talk about xml:base then? >> (<http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-xml:base-attribute-xml-only>). >> >> >> Consistency, please. > > Because xml:base (much like xml:lang) has an effect on down-level > languages? Not sure what you mean by down-level. I don't think anybody claims that xml:space is a very useful attribute. It's just something that XHTML1 allowed, and I see no reason not to allow it. To allow it, it will need to be mentioned as a global (XML-only) attribute. Best regards, Julian
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