- From: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:27:53 -0600
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: "www-archive@w3.org" <www-archive@w3.org>
>>> Since the only form of XHTML permitted by RFC 2854 to be served as >>> text/html is the Appendix C-defined subset of XHTML 1.0, and since >>> documents conforming to one of the XHTML 1.0 DTDs cannot include >>> namespaces, it follows that content including namespaces cannot be >>> served as text/html. >> >> You're missing a step. You need to show where Appendix C requires the >> document strictly conform to the XHTML 1.0 DTDs. > > I explain this in: > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2002Nov/0093.html > > text/html is only for _valid_ XHTML 1.0, namespaces make XHTML 1.0 > documents invalid. Ergo text/html can't be used for XHTML 1.0. I only see a reference to a non-normative NOTE there. > In any case, the lack of any Web browsers that support namespaces in > text/html makes the entire argument reasonably moot. In the real world, > you can't do it. I don't need browser support; the namespaces are for other readers. -- Aaron Swartz [http://www.aaronsw.com/]
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