Hi all,

            My question is really about HTML.  I am implementing an open source defect tracking system called Roundup (a set of Python modules), and noticed that it uses TAL.  However, I looked all through the Roundup and Python HTML and did not find a namespace declaration.  Isn’t one required?  This from (http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/AppendixC.stx):

The prefix identifies the language, and must be introduced by an XML namespace declaration in XML and XHTML documents, like this:

     xmlns:ns="http://language.creator.com/namespaces/MyAttributeLanguage

I realize that the statement above mentions XHTML but not HTML, implying that non-well-formed HTML does not require the declaration.  But in the absence of the declaration, how does HTML know how to handle a TAL statement attribute?  Why wouldn’t it balk as soon as it sees the tal: prefix?

Thanks,

Jeffrey Blaze