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On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:18:39 +0100, Dan Connolly <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 03:35 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:
[...]
In conclusion: XHTML5 does not have a new conflict with XHTML2 even if
both use the same namespace. The conflict, insofar as there is one that
matters, already exists between XHTML1 and XHTML2, and exists
irrespective
of XHTML5. I believe this issue to therefore be out of scope for the
HTML5
specification, and do not propose to do anything about it (except for
changing the "relationship to XHTML2" section if they do indeed publish
a
version of XHTML2 that reuses the same namespace).
It seems they did publish such a draft:
"Change XHTML 2.0 namespace to http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
-- http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xhtml2-20060726/
That's from "Issues". The normative text is:
The start tag of the root element of the document must explicitly
contain an xmlns declaration for the XHTML 2.0 namespace [XMLNS]. The
namespace URI for XHTML 2.0 is defined to be
http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xhtml2/.
I'm told it was by popular demand, so perhaps lots of demand
in the other direction would get it changed.
Myself, I'm content with the "ignore it and see if it
goes away" approach.
--
Simon Pieters
Opera Software
