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Posted to dev@forrest.apache.org by David Crossley <cr...@apache.org> on 2005/09/08 01:38:11 UTC

Re: XHTML2 namespace

Gregor J. Rothfuss wrote:
> Tim Williams wrote:
> >I am not completely sure that it matters, but I felt like some of my
> >issues yesterday with the stylesheet might have been namespace related
> >(i.e. the source doc had a trailing "slash" and the stylesheet did
> >not).  The standard seems to indicate with a trailing slash, I suspect
> >most tools would be forgiving on this anyway and I'm not sure that it
> >really matters but it seems we should pick one and run with it.
> 
> it does matter. tools are not at liberty to ignore trailing slashes.

Both xmllint and Jing complain about the trailing slash.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/xhtml20_relax.html
does not use a trailing slash.

Yet the examples do use a trailing slash at
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/conformance.html

Confused.

-David