- From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 12:51:16 +0900
- To: whelan@itp.unibe.ch
- Cc: www-html@w3.org, www-html-editor@w3.org
whelan@itp.unibe.ch (John Whelan) wrote: (....) > For that matter, XHTML 1.1 > seems to be backtracking from some of the philosophical changes made > in HMTL4 (sorry I didn't RTFM before this, but despite having been > subscribed to this list and endured endless ranting about a "tag soup > spec", I was totally unaware that there was an XHTML 1.1), e.g., the > removal of the lang attribute. Would someone care to elaborate on > some of the logic here? - the lang attribute was added to HTML 4 - XML 1.0 defined xml:lang for that purpose - since XHTML is an XML application, xml:lang is preferred - XHTML 1.0 defined both lang and xml:lang for backward and forward compatibility - since XHTML 1.1 is a forward-looking document type, it has only xml:lang and removed the lang attribute Regards, -- Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
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