@karenetheridge q: Indeed we can reach URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names11/

however the url checker is not passing. Not sure if this has always been the case and we should merge ? @ralfhandl - thoughts?

@ralfhandl , @karenetheridge

links to the W3C TR page for XML Namespaces 1.1 (https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names11/) check tooling sometimes gets a 403 Forbidden from W3C even though the page is reachable in a normal browser, which trips CI. (is this problem new?)

There’s also a conversion script (scripts/md2html/md2html.js) that rewrites XML namespaces into a bibliographic-style reference ([[xml-names11|XML namespaces]]) for rendered output—so the W3C URL is a known/intentional citation in the project history.

initial thoughts:
Add an allowlist/ignore rule for that URL in the link checker config (best if you want to keep the canonical W3C reference).

The ones from me are still open (#5290, #5291, #5292). Just noting, I'm not bothered about whether those are merged via those PRs or this one.

Let's merge those instead; I was only intending on catching up with syncing that hadn't been done.