[whatwg] HTML5 Parsing spec first draft ready

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Fri Mar 10 17:20:10 PST 2006


On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> 
> Off the top of my head, the changes from the HTML parsing output involve
> (besides lowercasing names and putting elements in the XHTML 1.x namespace)
> getting rid of the meta element conveying character encoding information,

Why? It doesn't need to be removed, it just has no semantics in XHTML.


> mapping the lang attribute to xml:lang

"lang" is still valid in XHTML.


> copying the name of boolean attributes into the value

Need to do that anyway for HTML.


> and perhaps some issues with line breaks in attribute values.

Yeah, I have to look into those. But those will affect the spec either 
way, HTML or XHTML.

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