Re: Accepting redundant xmlns declarations from Bjoern Hoehrmann on 2002-05-09 (www-validator@w3.org from May 2002)

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 00:19:57 +0200
To: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <bbtldu0er5v5piqvr52nhejond2rvabaad@4ax.com>

* John Levon wrote:
>I have been led to understand that XHTML 1.0 Strict documents containing
>code like :
>
><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>...
></p>
>
>is well-formed and valid, although the ns declaration is redundant.
>
>Is this the case ?

No, the XHTML 1.0 DTDs do not define a xmlns attribute for element p,
the only place you may put an xmlns attribute specification is the html
element.

>Would it be possible for xmlns tags that just give
>the current namespace to be ignored by the validator (the rest of my
>code validates fine) ?

For the reason above, no.

>This sort of output comes from docbook XML processed by xsltproc

Fix the style sheets :-)

Received on Thursday, 9 May 2002 18:20:46 UTC