[whatwg] The problems with namespaces in text/html (Was: MathML-in-HTML5)

[Henri Sivonen]

On Nov 5, 2006, at 14:12, Elliotte Harold wrote:

> If you don't have xmnls and xmlns:prefix then there are no  
> namespaces, period.

If my parser tells your ContentHandler that there is a namespace,  
then there is. Your ContentHandler doesn't get to see any source bytes.

If my parser gives your code a XOM tree with namespaces, then there  
are namespaces. Again, your code doesn't get to see how the  
namespaces ended up there.

> All we have is the document's text. This is what must be defined.  
> If there are no namespaces in the text, then there are no namespaces.

There are no namespaces in any text unless a parsing spec creates  
such a notion.

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