HTML XMLS Attribute

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Dixie
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HTML XMLS Attribute

Post by Dixie »

Hi, I am an internet marketer with some HTML skills. I have just purchased HTML Pad 2007 and plan to use it instead of Dreamweaver.

For my webpages I was taught to use:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> and <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">.

The wizard gives me the DOCTYPE element attribute I need but it does not include the html element attribute. However your HTML Inspector does have the empty xmlns attibute.

I use these attributes to have some future proofing and I also combine CSS with the HTML. However I do not do any XML stuff.

My question is: Do I gain anything by including
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> instead of just using the <html> element the wizard produces?

Anyone know what the attribute 'xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' does?

Thanks

Dixie
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Post by Karlis »

Practically you gain nothing. Many developers think that it is simply nice to have this, because it is closer to specification, but in real world it has no influence.

There is nothing wrong with having or having it not. Either way the practical result is the same.
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Post by RoyReed »

Info on XMLNS can be found here: www.w3.org/TR/xptr-xmlns/

And this explains why there's no point in using XHTML instead of HTML: www.spartanicus.utvinternet.ie/no-xhtml.htm
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