Re: Accepting redundant xmlns declarations

scripsit Bjoern Hoehrmann:
> * 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.

The confusion might be that it is _well-formed_ XML, but if it doesn't
conform to the DTD it isn't _valid_ XHTML.

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Thanasis Kinias
Web Developer, Information Technology
Graduate Student, Department of History
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.

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Received on Thursday, 9 May 2002 18:33:48 UTC