- From: Malcolm Rowe <malcolm-what@farside.org.uk>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 08:05:48 +0100
Jim Ley wrote: >> Could you cite the bit where the HTML WG say that text/html cannot >> contain namespaces > Namespaces aren't defined for text/html content. That's not to say you can't have an element called "foo:bar" (which I think is what you seem to be assuming Ian is suggesting), but that there's nothing in HTML that allows you to interpret what the 'namespace' of that element is. Since XForms depends upon XML namespaces (among other things - XPath and XML Schemas also come to mind), it's impossible to represent an XForms document as HTML, since, per the note that Ian quoted, an element <foo:bar> must be interpretted according to the semantics defined by text/html, and that means "a tag callled 'foo:bar'", not "an element 'bar' in the 'foo' namespace." Regards, Malcolm (resent, forgot to copy the list)
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