Re: HTML5 recommendation section 10.3.3 Flow content

On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 18:05:51 +0200, Dr. Olaf Hoffmann  
<Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de> wrote:

> Jukka K. Korpela:
>> The two elements are mentioned as obsolete as
>> https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/obsolete.html#non-conforming-features
>
> Oh I see, in 11.2 Non-conforming features, but not in the element index
> https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/index.html#elements-1
> This is confusing, just because it is not mentioned in this CSS  
> fragment, that
> it cares about non conforming features, one should not use anymore.
>
> Even more confusing:
> The CSS fragment notes
> @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
>
> But obviously, these elements are not even defined  in the legacy module
> of XHTML 1.1
> https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/abstract_modules.html#s_legacymodule
>
> Doesn't this mean, that they are not in the XHTML namespace,
> therefore the rule does not apply?
> If they only appear within HTML2, they obviously belong not to the XHTML
> namespace, if HTML5 does not add them.

All elements (ignoring <math> and <svg> and their descendants) are put in  
the XHTML namespace by the HTML parser.

HTH,
-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software

Received on Tuesday, 21 June 2016 13:30:43 UTC