- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:11:00 -0500
Paul Topping wrote: > Elements whose namespaces aren't known should be handled like any other > unknown HTML element. I believe the common way for user agents to handle > an unknown element is basically to ignore the tag and its attributes and > treat any text between start and end tags as if the tags weren't there. > Namespaces do not present any new challenge in this area. Yes, that's accurate; but there is new opportunity here. CSS, XSLT, and JavaScript present the option to specify styling for unknown elements, in the same or different namespaces. Must-ignore could become "Must-ignore unless the stylesheet says not to". I'm not sure if this is really a good idea or not, but I for one would find it very useful and make heavy use of it. -- ?Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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