Re: &foo= in attribute values (and why defining conformance matters)

On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:22:19 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

>> Writing HTML documents seems to make this valid:
>>
>>    <a href="&copy=">
>>
>> and claims that the attribute value contains just text and no character
>> references (since character references end with ";").
>>
>> Yet, Parsing HTML documents interprets the above the same as <a
>> href="©=">, as far as I can tell.
>
> Oops, I forgot about that case. Ok, reverted the change.

It might still be reasonable to change the parsing rules to make the above  
case less surprising:

>>   3. Tweak the parsing rules so that = is treated the same as 0-9a-zA-Z.

It would be different form what IE does, but I would be surprised if Web  
compat requires the IE behavior here.

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Simon Pieters
Opera Software