[whatwg] The version attribute for HTML5

Fri Feb 24 15:53:02 PST 2006

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Simon Pieters wrote:
> 
> Since HTML5 won't be an SGML application, the DOCTYPE could be shortened down
> to this:
> 
> |<!DOCTYPE html>

Agreed. Done.

> To specify the version, we could reuse the version attribute:
> 
> |<html version="5.0">

It's not clear to me what benefit we derive from this.

> XML documents could use the same DOCTYPE (if desired) since it is 
> wellformed.

It seems preferable for them to use no DOCTYPE at all.

> [2] The html start tag would look like:
> 
> |<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" version="5.0">
> 
> What do you think?

I don't see any reason to include the version="" attribute, but other than 
that I agree.

Thanks,
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