- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:13:17 +0000
- To: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
1) It recommends [1] the use of the UTF-8 BOM -- that seems . . . odd
to me.
2) Advice wrt xmlns:xlink is contradictory: I've already filed a bug
on this one [2].
3) 'void' elements [3] -- the name is non-standard, and the
requirement:
"Polyglot markup uses the minimized tag syntax for void elements,
e.g. <br/>, rather than the alternative syntax <br></br>."
seems unnecessary to me. . .
<p /> is mentioned, as not appropriate, but nothing is said about
<br />, which surely ought to be allowed if possible, for legacy
docs.
The final Note seems odd, and introduces a new name ("self-closing").
4) xml:space and xml:base [4]:
"The [xml:space and xml:base] attributes are not allowed in polyglot
markup"
-- Should this be clarified to read "not allowed on HTML elements"?
-- As far as I can see the xml:space attribute is allowed, just a)
has no effect and b) won't/can't be serialised. xml:base is
indeed disallowed.
ht
[1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-xhtml-author-guide/#character-encoding
[2] http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15001
[3] http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-xhtml-author-guide/#empty-elements
[4] http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-xhtml-author-guide/#disallowed-attributes
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