xml:lang is now allowed in HTML5

Dear all,

In the just issued "HTML 5 differences from HTML 4" Working Draft
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-html5-diff-20090423/#open-issues
it is mentionned:

2.4 Miscellaneous

There are a few other syntax changes worthy of mentioning:
    * HTML now has native support for IRIs, though they can only be
      fully used if the document encoding is UTF-8 or UTF-16.
    * The lang attribute takes the empty string in addition to a valid
      language identifier, just like xml:lang does in XML.

5.2 Changes from 10 June 2008 to 12 February 2009

xml:lang is now allowed in HTML when lang is also specified and they 
have the same value. In XML lang is allowed if xml:lang is also 
specified and they have the same value.


Regards,

Najib

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Received on Friday, 24 April 2009 11:03:05 UTC