[Bug 3385] xmlns in html tag is not mandatory

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3385

           Summary: xmlns in html tag is not mandatory
           Product: Validator
           Version: HEAD
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Parser
        AssignedTo: link@pobox.com
        ReportedBy: eldmannen@gmail.com
         QAContact: www-validator-cvs@w3.org


I validated a XHTML 1.1 document.
The html tag was a plain tag which looked like this;
 <html>

But as far as I know, the standard does require the xmlns attribute. Yet the
validator validates the document as correct XHTML 1.1 even though the mandatory
xmlns attribute was not present.

In my browser my document didnt work until I changed it to ths;
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

Received on Friday, 23 June 2006 18:37:13 UTC