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 _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf