- From: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:42:01 +0100
- To: "William F. Hammond" <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
- Cc: <jscript@pacbell.net>, <w3c-html-wg@w3.org>, <voyager-issues@mn.aptest.com>, <www-html@w3.org>
From: "William F. Hammond" <hammond@csc.albany.edu> > "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. No, there is no suggestion that it is preferable. It is just an option, allowed by XML Namespaces. I was just pointing out that XHTML does not disallow it. Steven Pemberton Chair, W3C HTML Working Group
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