- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:16:55 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > I start to think that lang="" should also be allowed in XML documents. > xml:lang is nice, but if you don't have knowledge of the HTML namespace > knowing the language of certain constructs isn't that valuable. It would > also make HTMLElement.lang useful for XML documents... > > (And user agents have to support and support this stuff already too.) On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Simon Pieters wrote: > > If lang="" in text/html will still be in the null namespace, then I > agree. I hesitate to do this for the same reason we don't have <base href> in HTML -- it is stomping on XML-native mechanisms for the same thing. I'd rather not have people who use XHTML stomping all over the XML-native solutions; it sets a bad precedent and defeats many of the advantages of XML in the first place. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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