Does anyone know how the HTML5 data attributes (data-*) can be implemented in XHTML without rendering the markup as invalid?
Is there a custom namespacing hack that would allow this on existing HTML elements?
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It can't be done. XHTML is a precursor of HTML5.
In the same way that CSS3 properties will never validate in a CSS2 validator, you cannot validate HTML5 according to XHTML.
Stargazer712
2010-07-19 23:32:08
For XHTML 1.0 and 1.1, true. For XHTML5, not true.
Paul D. Waite
2010-07-20 09:39:01
I was unaware that there was such a thing. Good to know :)
Stargazer712
2010-07-20 16:57:14
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You could use XHTML5. Then your mark-up would be XML, and valid XHTML5.
I think you could also use XML namespacing to use them on XHTML1 — I’m not very familiar with XML, so I’m not sure.
I think that both of these methods technically require you to serve your pages as XML (instead of text/html), which Internet Explorer doesn’t support. But I suspect they’d work just fine in browsers even if you didn’t.
Paul D. Waite
2010-07-20 09:38:45