This validates:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
This does not:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
What I'm wondering is, why doesn't the second validate? Or perhaps put another
way, why do several books, including HTML and XHTML: The Definitive Guide (an
O'Reilly book) say the second is correct?
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In article <cq**********@news.xmission.com>,
Paul Wake<wa**********@xmission.com> wrote: This does not:
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1"
What I'm wondering is, why doesn't the second validate?
The namespace declaration is wrong.
Or perhaps put another
way, why do several books, including HTML and XHTML: The Definitive Guide (an
O'Reilly book) say the second is correct?
Please report the error to the publisher if that really is the case.
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Paul Wake<wa**********@xmission.com> wrote: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
What I'm wondering is, why doesn't the second validate? Or perhaps
put another way, why do several books, including HTML and XHTML:
The Definitive Guide (an O'Reilly book) say the second is correct?
Because the DTD you use specifies that the html element shall have an
xmlns attribute with the exact literal value of
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"
Technically, that attribute is not required by the DTD, so it is not
invalid (though it is incorrect by the prose of the HTML specification)
to omit the entire xmnls attribute, but if it is included, its value
shall be the exact string given:
<!ATTLIST html
%i18n;
id ID #IMPLIED
xmlns %URI; #FIXED 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'
There's not much point in all of this except in the wider XML
perspective, which is just muddy theory to most authors, so I'm not
really surprised at seeing that a "definitive guide" gets it wrong.
(The string http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml as a namespace name is
somewhat odd, due to the 1999/ part, but there's presumably some higher
truth behind this apparent oddity, at least if you ask them.)
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In article <Xn****************************@193.229.0.31>,
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jk******@cs.tut.fi> wrote: Because the DTD you use specifies that the html element shall have an
xmlns attribute with the exact literal value of
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"
ITYM "exact literal value of 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'".
Technically, that attribute is not required by the DTD, so it is not
invalid (though it is incorrect by the prose of the HTML specification)
s/HTML/XHTML/
There's not much point in all of this except in the wider XML
perspective,
Defaulting the namespace in the DTD is an extremely bad idea considering
DTDless parsing.
(The string http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml as a namespace name is
somewhat odd, due to the 1999/ part, but there's presumably some higher
truth behind this apparent oddity, at least if you ask them.)
It appears they think a URL should show the year it was minted. Not very
useful here.
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On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 01:41:41 +0200, Henri Sivonen wrote: Defaulting the namespace in the DTD is an extremely bad idea considering
DTDless parsing.
ITYM external-subset-less parsing, but your point is taken. Externally
defaulted attribute specifications are always problematic in XML.
Needless to say, namespaces are an even worse idea.
In article <hs****************************@news.dnainternet.n et>,
Henri Sivonen <hs******@iki.fi> writes: There's not much point in all of this except in the wider XML
perspective,
Defaulting the namespace in the DTD is an extremely bad idea considering
DTDless parsing.
It's XHTML being schizophrenic as usual. If it's HTML then it had better
default the namespace in the DTD. If it's XML, it had better not.
WML does it too, and really has no excuse.
It appears they think a URL should show the year it was minted. Not very
useful here.
If indeed that's what they mint. Too much design by committee.
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