Bug 526 – Vaguely reduce the burden on data mining tools.

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Bug 526 - Vaguely reduce the burden on data mining tools.


Summary:	Vaguely reduce the burden on data mining tools.

Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL

Product:	Validator.nu
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	General
Version:	HEAD
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	P2 normal
Assigned To:	Henri Sivonen

URL:	http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps/source?...

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Reported:	2009-05-27 14:21 CEST by Henri Sivonen
Modified:	2009-05-27 14:30 CEST (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Henri Sivonen 2009-05-27 14:21:03 CEST

Index: source
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--- source	(revision 2796)
+++ source	(revision 2797)
@@ -61116,6 +61116,16 @@
 
   <p>The <dfn>XMLNS namespace</dfn> is: <code>http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/</code></p>
 
+  <hr>
+
+  <p>Data mining tools and other user agents that perform operations
+  on <code title="">text/html</code> content without running scripts,
+  evaluating CSS or XPath expressions, or otherwise exposing the
+  resulting DOM to arbitrary content, may "support namespaces" by just
+  asserting that their DOM node analogues are in certain namespaces,
+  without actually exposing the above strings.</p>
+
+
 
 
   <h3>Serializing HTML fragments</h3>