[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 #5 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>  2010-06-21 14:42:31 ---
(In reply to comment #4)

> > 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?

Just to be clear: _multiple_ consequive spaces are taken care of in XML,
according to the DOM inspectors I have consulted.

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