- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:54:36 +0100
- To: www-math@w3.org
On 27/10/2011 15:26, Christian Lerch wrote: > As far as I understand the specs > <http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-xhtml-author-guide/#attribute-level-namespaces> > (which is still work in progress) this would not be a problem in > polyglot markup, if |xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"| > would be a predefined (they call it "undeclared") attribute-level > namespace. But it isn't: the only predefined attribute-level > namespace so far is |xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink". > Maybe someone with insider connctions can route this input to the > ongoing specification work? > > Regards, > > Christian | xlink: is only allowed because of legacy usage (and only in "foreign content" ie mathml or svg) I would think there is next to no possibility of adding more namespace support to html with its current working group, although someone is welcome to try:-) However it would be pretty odd to use xhtml-namespaced attributes in an xhtml context anyway so I don't think we should ask for that. The request to allow namespaced attributes was (as far as I understand it) to allow rdfa to be used with other unrelated markup languages that might otherwise have clashing attribute names. David
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