[tei-council] whither HTML of Guidelines and @lang

[James Cummings]

On 23/11/12 12:23, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> i put it to you that "the web" community has no meaningful  standards in this area:-}

I couldn't possibly comment.

"To ease migration to and from XHTML, authors may specify an 
attribute in no namespace with no prefix and with the literal 
localname "xml:lang" on HTML elements in HTML documents, but such 
attributes must only be specified if a lang attribute in no 
namespace is also specified, and both attributes must have the 
same value when compared in an ASCII case-insensitive manner."

I.e. they are abuse xml:lang to say the xml: part is *NOT* a 
namespace!?!  I mean I know they borked the doctype and made 
other silly decisions but I didn't think they were actually 
saying xml: wasn't really a namespace in HTML5.

silly, silly, silly.

-James

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Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk
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