- From: Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 21:47:00 +0200
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Anton Frattaroli wrote: > I just read about how other markup languages (e.g. MathML, SVG) will be > implicitly namespace?d when put into an appropriate tag here: > > http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-July/020740.html > > Allowing XML namespaces to be ?inserted? into HTML5 is a neat feature, but > challenges its definition as a subset of XML.? I don?t believe the XML 1.0 > specification allows this. Implicit namespaces are a specificity of the text/html serialization; on the other hand, application/xhtml+xml is XML and you have to play by the XML rules: declare namespaces and eventually bind them to prefixes; HTML5 doesn't change those rules. > Mixing markup languages also makes the DOCTYPE declaration pretty much null > and void.? What?s the point of a DTD if you?re going to add in other DTDs? There's no DTD for HTML5, so? -- Thomas Broyer
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