92412 - http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40 is not the XHTML namespace

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Help Documentation, defect)

Description

[rbs]

"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" is not the XHTML namespace.
Actually, the correct namespace is simpler: "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"

It took a crusade in bug 7834 to clean this not too long ago.
Cc:ing some spec vigilante (dbaron and hixie) and all those whom CVS said 
touched the file so that they can continue to keep an open eye.

PS: Maybe some debugging code should be added in the C++ side to detect this
incorrect namespace, thereby preventing it from slowy creeping back in the tree.

Comment 1

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

This is a dup of bug 7834 which was left open so that we could do this final 
fix. I suggest we mark 7834 fixed if we use this bug.

Comment 2

[rbs]

Bug 7834 is still asking for the internal C++ support of REC-html40 to be 
dropped. (Like you folks, I "just knew" that this REC-html40 stuff would gives 
us a though time.)

Comment 3

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

My bad, I didn't realise the bug was about a particular instance of use of that
namespace, I thought you were asking for the removal of our support in this bug!

Comment 4

[rbs]

oeschger - this bug seems to have been forgotten, or are there any side-effects
that prevent changing REC40 during one of your updates to this file?

Comment 5

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

Attachment: changing namespace for html

Comment 6

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

rbs--sorry about the delay. I'll get this in as soon as I can. mini-r/sr anyone?

Comment 7

[rbs]

Comment on attachment 50662 [details] [diff] [review]
changing namespace for html

r=rbs

Comment 8

[rudman]

Updating milestone.

Comment 9

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

Hmm...not sure when I fixed this (or if it was actually me), but the xhtml
namespace is no longer present in the help.xul file, much less inaccurate.
Marking FIXED.

Comment 10

[Terri Preston]

Hi there Ian,

I'm trying to verify this bug but when I look at the code, I see

21 <window id="help"
22 windowtype="mozilla:help"
23 xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"


wouldn't that mean that this bug is still valid?

Comment 11

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

Jeez, not sure what I'm looking at. Thanks Terri. Bug REOPENED. I'll get this
out as soon as I can.

Comment 12

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Comment on attachment 50662 [details] [diff] [review]
changing namespace for html

a=asa (on behalf of drivers) for checkin to the 1.0 trunk

Comment 13

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Is this finished off? If so can you resolve it and if not can you obsolete the
patch (I'm trying to clear up the query results for all open bugs with open
patches that have approval so drivers can better track what's still pending
checkin.) Thanks.

Comment 14

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

Marking FIXED

Comment 15

[Terri Preston]

Verified fixed win XP build 2002041206