I've modified my very preliminary impl to support the use of xhtml:dir and have checked in some code [1]. The impl is very rough and designed only to illustrate the basic behavior I have in mind.
Right now, the code determines the direction of text using the following steps (in order): 1. Look for an unprefixed "dir" attribute 2. Look for the xhtml:dir attribute 3. Look for any attribute with local-name="dir" and whose value looks appropriate (e.g. f:dir="ltr" xmlns:f="urn:foo" ) 4. If not found, iterate up through parent elements - James [1] http://tinyurl.com/ydb8uy James Holderness wrote: > > If you're going to require a separate namespace for bidi support, maybe > it's best to use XHTML 1.0 and just toss out the lro and rlo values. I > know I was originally pushing for those to be included, but now that > I've seen how inconsistent the bdo support is in browsers I think > they're probably going to be a waste of time. Nobody is going to get > them right. > > Regards > James > >