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Re: Last Call: draft-snell-atompub-bidi (Atom Bidirectional Attribute) to Experimental RFC

"Frank Ellermann" <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de> Mon, 14 April 2008 08:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: draft-snell-atompub-bidi (Atom Bidirectional Attribute) to Experimental RFC
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Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
 
>> I don't find dir="" in the HTML 4.01 spec.,
 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.2

That permits LTR or RTL, bot not an empty dir="", or
is it another SGML oddity I've never before heard of ?
 
> The dir="" is probably here to reset the text direction
> to "I do not know", something which is impossible in
> HTML because of the inheritance.

Yes, my question was why the draft needs dir="" at all,
and if it also updates HTML and XHTML for the purposes
of ATOM. 

xml:lang="" in XML 1 turned out to be a major headache
for XHTML 1, because it is forced to mirror HTML 4.01
as good as possible, and an NMTOKEN cannot be empty.

 Frank

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