[Bug 9965] White space in attributes - please justify why multiple spaces/linebreaks are problematic - or delete this requirement

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9965





--- Comment #4 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>  2010-06-21 14:17:55 ---
(In reply to comment #3)

> >          class="   class1        class2
> >                          class3 "
> > 
> > as [o]pposed to this: 
> > 
> >          class="class1 class2 class3"
> 
> Those parse to the same DOM in XML but to different DOMs in text/html. The

Did you *mean* "DOMs" in plural about 'text/html'? For what it is worth, there
*does* seem to be differences with regard to how text/html browsr treat white
space:

IE8 in IE8/edge mode seems to handle the first example above more and less as
XML parsers do (that is: if I can trust Live DOM viewer). 
Wheras IE8 in IE7 mode takes care of all space characers, but convert the
linebreak to a space (if I can trust Live DOM Viewer). Trusting Live DOM Viewer
here, seems risky, though.

In Opera, Firebug, Safari, then Dragonfly, Firebug, WebInspector showed that
linebreaks were preserved, in text/HTML mode. 

> first case is not polyglot, since there's an observable DOM difference between
> HTML and XML.

I probably agree, when it comes to tabs, line feeds and carriage returns. As
you said in Comment #1:

> The correct thing to say here is:
> Tabs, line feeds and carriage returns in attribute values must be encoded as
> numeric character references.

But I question what you said about consecutive spaces:

> At least every second of consecutive spaces in
> attribute values must be encoded as numeric character references (so that there
> are no consecutive literal spaces in attribute values). This is because XML
> parsing doesn't preserve unescaped tabs, line feeds, carriage returns or
> consecutive spaces in attribute values.

When I consulted Dragonfly, Firebug and Webinspector, then spaces *were* taken
care of in both XML and text/HTML. So what is this claim based on?

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