- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 16:40:52 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Michel Fortin wrote: > > While the requirement for authors is pretty clear (HTML: lang; XHTML: > xml:lang), it seems to me that the user agent is asked to always favour > xml:lang even in an HTML context. Is this really what's intended? I > think this ought to be clarified. It's intended, because the idea is to let UAs have just one implementation. Note that "xml:lang" is a namespaced attribute, you can't specify it in HTML without using scripting. (<html xml:lang=""> doesn't create a node with a namespaced attribute.) > > The id DOM attribute must reflect the id content attribute. > > Does that mean it should not reflect xml:id even when id is not defined? Correct. The xml:id spec doesn't have a DOM binding. That is unrelated to HTML5. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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