11523 2010-12-10 12:58:11 +0000 xhtml namespace declarations on html nested within in foreign content 2011-08-04 05:07:16 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG LC1 HTML/XHTML Compatibility Authoring Guide (ed: Eliot Graff) unspecified PC Windows NT RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 davidc eliotgra eliotgra mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 43246 0 davidc 2010-12-10 12:58:11 +0000 5.1 Element-Level Namespaces says that the only namespace declarations used should be on <html> <svg> and <math> but the xhtml namespace must be declared on any html elements used as children of svg or mathml elements. so <math xmlns=".....">.....<mtext>...<b xmlns="http..xhtml">zzz</b>...</mtext>... otherwise the html parser will put the <b> in the xhtml namespace (and it will work) and the xml parser will put <b> in the mathml namespace (and it won't work) 43645 1 eliotgra 2010-12-29 19:40:00 +0000 Section 5.1 has been rewritten to include this paragraph: Polyglot markup declares the default namespaces on the root HTML element <html>, the root SVG element <svg>, and the root MathML element <math>, and on any HTML elements used as children of SVG or MathML elements. Polyglot markup does not declare any other default or prefixed element namespace, because [HTML5] does not natively support the declaring of any other default or prefixed element namespace. I believe that this satisfies the request of this bug. Thanks for you continued feedback. Eliot 53119 2 mike 2011-08-04 05:06:51 +0000 mass-move component to LC1 53168 3 mike 2011-08-04 05:07:16 +0000 mass-move component to LC1