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List:       whatwg
Subject:    Re: [whatwg] HTML Namespace Elements
From:       Ian Hickson <ian () hixie ! ch>
Date:       2013-05-29 20:27:06
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.1305292024270.2932 () ps20323 ! dreamhostps ! com
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On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, Mohammad Al Houssami (Alumni) wrote:
> 
> In the tokenizer specifications of the HTML5 parser the following is 
> written :
> 
> "Otherwise, if there is a current node and it is not an element in the 
> HTML namespace "
>
> What does it mean ?

It's saying that the subsequent steps apply if the "current node" is an 
element whose namespace (as given e.g. by the element's Element object's 
namespaceURI IDL attribute) is the string "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml".

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