- From: William F. Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
 - Date: 06 Feb 2002 10:44:42 -0500
 - To: "Steven Pemberton" <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
 - Cc: <jscript@pacbell.net>, <w3c-html-wg@w3.org>, <voyager-issues@mn.aptest.com>, <www-html@w3.org>
 
"Steven Pemberton" <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> writes:
> > <!DOCTYPE html:html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
. . .
> > <html:html xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> > <html:head><html:title></html:title></html:head>
. . .
> The root element is still <html>, you've just made the namespace explicit
> (normally it is defaulted). There's no problem.
Is it being suggested that this is preferable to:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
. . .
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
??
It looks rather grotesque to me -- not that one is _supposed_ to
look at it.
                                    -- Bill
Received on Wednesday, 6 February 2002 10:44:50 UTC