Martin McEvoy wrote:
Ian,
Is this the reason *why* xmlns prefixes are not supported in HTML 5....
".... The DOM Level 2 does not support any mechanism to resolve
namespace prefixes. For all of these reasons, use of such entities and
entity references should be avoided or used with extreme care. A
future Level of the DOM may include some additional support for
handling these."
http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Core-20001113/core.html#Namespaces-Considerations
and
"...While DOM Level 3 does have support for the resolution of namespace
prefixes, use of such entities and entity references should be avoided
or used with extreme care."
http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#Namespaces-Considerations
Thanks
(dont know why I didn't include that)
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Martin McEvoy
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