using setAttribute or set attribute directly

[VK]

for createDocumentNS method

for createElementNS method of course

 

[Michael Winter]

On 27/05/2006 12:04, VK wrote:

[snip]

So you /know/ the exact situation with namespaces in both HTML and
XHTML?

What exactly do you think is so complicated about it? XHTML has
namespaces, and HTML doesn't. You are the only person confused by this.

You are the luckyest person then on the Web because even W3C and
the best W3C interpreters (like Hixie) are in troubles.

No they aren't.

There is a difference between "no namespace" and "default namespace"
and everyone is completely lost these as W3C changed the rules
several times.

If you are going to make assertions like that, back them up.

The most significant changes to the DOM Core description of XML
namespaces occurred whilst DOM Level 2 was still a Working Draft (so
hardly surprising). However, there are no contradictions, only better
definitions. The same goes for the XML Namespaces Recommendation. So, to
say that the W3C 'changed the rules several times' seems nothing more
than a lie (or at least a figment of your imagination).

You are welcome to shed some light on it at
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280692> followed from
<http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:document.createElement#Notes>

Why? Neither are confused. The development team know that they are
breaking the specification, they know how, and they know why. That
doesn't mean I agree (and neither does Ian Hickson, by the looks of it),
but they don't need any help understanding the issues.

[snip]

Mike