Re: errors in xhtml 2.0 draft from 2002-12-18? (PR#6226)

Hello,

Thanks for your error report.

JanC <www-html@janc.cjb.net> wrote:

> A) In '13.1.1. meta and search engines' there is an example:
> 
> | <-- For speakers of US English -->
> | <meta name="keywords" xml:lang="en-us">vacation, Greece, sunshine</meta>
> | <-- For speakers of British English -->
> | <meta name="keywords" xml:lang="en">holiday, Greece, sunshine</meta>
> | <-- For speakers of French -->
> | <meta name="keywords" lang="fr">vacances, Gr&egrave;ce, soleil</meta>
> 
> Shouldn't that be 'xml:lang="fr"'?

Right, this error will be fixed in the next draft.

> B) At the end of '18.3.3.2. Categorizing cells' (just before 18.3.3.3),
> there is a sentence:
> 
> | User agents that support this type of rendering should allow user agents 
> | a means to customize rendering (e.g., through style sheets).
> 
> The second occurence of 'user agents' seems wrong to me...
> I think that should be 'authors'?

This error seems to be inherited from HTML 4, section 11.4.2 [1,2].
Not only the next draft of XHTML2, but also the HTML 4 errata should
also be updated to fix this.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#h-11.4.2
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html-editor/2000JanMar/0132

Regards,
-- 
Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium

Received on Tuesday, 14 January 2003 08:32:18 UTC