[jsr-314-open-mirror] [jsr-314-open] [490-XmlViews] RESOLVED: Namespace and DOCTYPE

Thu Oct 28 17:21:14 EDT 2010

>>>>> On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:38:15 -0700, Blake Sullivan <blake.sullivan at oracle.com> said:

EB> SECTION: Namespace

EB> * If you want a namespace passed through to the client, pass it on
EB> <html>, as suggested by Andy.

B> I think that they can set it on any element that uses the default tag 
B> handler.  

Yes, that is correct.

B> However, they shouldn't need to pass through the HTML 
B> namespace anyway, since the XHTML ResponseWriter should be outputting 
B> this for them if we are actually sending out XHTML.

I looked through the latest spec and I can't find any reference to
an XHTML ResponseWriter, nor is there any code that automatically
generates an xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml".  As far as I can see,
the only way to get an xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" through to
the user agent is to put it there as Andy suggests.

Therefore, our existing resolution stands.

B> We agree that the multi-namespace cases can wait.  The XHTML 
B> ResponseWriter can do the right thing anyway, so there shouldn't be any 
B> basic cases where the namespace needs to be passed through.

Again with the XHTML ResponseWriter.  Am I missing something?

Ed
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