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Missing xmlns attribute for element html.

May 17, 2009, 6:22 AM
hegu
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May 17, 2009, 6:22 AM
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Missing xmlns attribute for element html.
When I ran the pages in W3C validator, I am getting the error:

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Line 2, Column 1: Missing xmlns attribute for element html. The value should be: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml

Many Document Types based on XML need a mandatory xmlns="" on the root element. For example, the root element for XHTML will look like:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
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So I can goahead add this
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

INSTEAD of default <html>

thanks.
(sorry i mistakenly posted this in 'Gossammer Forums'.)

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hegu: May 17, 2009, 6:24 AM
May 18, 2009, 8:31 PM
brewt
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May 18, 2009, 8:31 PM
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Yup, that will make that validation error go away. I don't quite get that error because the xmlns attribute is an implied attribute, so it shouldn't be required...

Adrian