[whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

[Michel Fortin]

Le 4 déc. 2006 à 17:19, Lachlan Hunt a écrit :

> I agree, but how are xml:lang, xml:base and xml:id any more  
> meaningless in HTML than xmlns?

In XHTML you can avoid using xml:base (by not specifying a base) and  
xml:id (by using id). You can't avoid xmlns. That's why I think xmlns  
comes before these two in order of importance.

It is also very difficult to avoid xml:lang which, just like "/>",  
can be scattered all over the file. That's why I'm trying to see if  
there is a possibility of a conformant solution. There's at least a  
practical solution that will work, which is to use the lang attribute  
alone, although this isn't conformant with XHTML.

> The only reason xmlns was allowed was to help ease migration from  
> current XHTML 1.0 to HTML5.  Although that logic made sense for '/ 
> >' which you often find scattered throughout many different files,  
> which makes it difficult to update, the xmlns attribute occurs in  
> one place, and that's usually in the same file as the DOCTYPE (in  
> cases where templates are used).


Michel Fortin
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