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Bug 10796 - describe relaxed requirements on xml:space for XHTML
Summary: describe relaxed requirements on xml:space for XHTML
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 differences from HTML4 (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anne
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Reported: 2010-09-28 19:52 UTC by Julian Reschke
Modified: 2011-03-30 18:00 UTC (History)
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Description Julian Reschke 2010-09-28 19:52:09 UTC
With this change:

  http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5526&to=5527

HTML5 now allows xml:space everywhere, thus relaxes the requiremens in XHTML 1.0 on valid documents.

This should be mentioned in the differences document.
Comment 1 Simon Pieters 2011-03-30 17:52:13 UTC
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: added "Additionally, XHTML 1.0 only allowed xml:space on some elements, which is now allowed on all elements."
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 2 Simon Pieters 2011-03-30 18:00:08 UTC
(also added "in XHTML documents" for clarity)