Re: [xsl] Namespace for reconstituted HTML

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 24/04/2013 07:36, Ihe Onwuka wrote:
> I am downloading loading webpages and munging the markup.  I strip
> off the HTML namespace as part of the munging process but now I have
> a requirement to reconstitute the HTML.
>
> Can I leave the html unnamespaced or is it ok or  necessary to just
> stick in an xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; (or some other)
> declaration

That appears to be an html question not an xslt one, so this is a _very_
marginal question for this list.

HTML does not have namespaces.

If you are generating HTML 4 or earlier any xmlns attribute is invalid.
If you are generating HTML5 or later
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; is valid but ignored.

David



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