[whatwg] Map lang to xml:lang at the parser level

[Henri Sivonen]

On Oct 27, 2006, at 03:17, Anne van Kesteren wrote:

>> However, other types of programs processing HTML5 using XML tools  
>> would have to be allowed to consider xml:lang in text/html non- 
>> conforming and trashable, because what you suggest violates basic  
>> assumptions that XML processing software is supposed to make or  
>> even enforce.
>
> How so?

The colon is not allowed in a local name, so having "xml:lang" in no  
namespace in a namespace-aware system is forbidden.

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