correct use of lang attribute?

The Bicycling Guitarist · Dec 19, 2004

0001:<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
0002:[1]^<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US"
xml:lang="en-US">
----:[1]^Warning: <html> has XML attribute "xml:lang".

This warning from an online test of my home page supposedly indicates
something that is NOT "good coding practice." Is it right? Should I remove
the "xml:lang" part from every page?

Oli Filth · Dec 19, 2004

The said:
0001:<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
0002:[1]^<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US"
xml:lang="en-US">
----:[1]^Warning: <html> has XML attribute "xml:lang".

This warning from an online test of my home page supposedly indicates
something that is NOT "good coding practice." Is it right? Should I
remove the "xml:lang" part from every page?

That validator is probably rubbish then, cause AFAIK you should definitely have
the xml:lang attribute. See http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#strict for an example.

Oli

The Bicycling Guitarist · Dec 19, 2004

Oli Filth said:
The Bicycling Guitarist wrote: right? Should I

That validator is probably rubbish then, cause AFAIK you should definitely
have the xml:lang attribute. See http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#strict for
an example.

Oli

I want to go by w3 recommendations. Thanks Oli. The test was done by "Net
Mechanic." I will ignore its warning.

Richard · Dec 19, 2004

The said:
0001:<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
0002:[1]^<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US"
xml:lang="en-US">
----:[1]^Warning: <html> has XML attribute "xml:lang".

This warning from an online test of my home page supposedly indicates
something that is NOT "good coding practice." Is it right? Should I remove
the "xml:lang" part from every page?

www.validator.w3.org/

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correct use of lang attribute?

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