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

On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 18:25 -0400, Rob Sayre wrote:
> On 6/12/09 6:22 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, John Foliot wrote:
> >   
> > > I pose a serious question: what is the real benefit of making unescaped 
> > > ampersands non-conformant? (Of making anything "non-conformant"?)
> > >     
> > 
> > It defines what QA tools like conformance checkers should highlight as 
> > problems, as an aid to authors who wish to catch mistakes they did not 
> > intend. That's it.
> >   
> 
> That's called a lint tool. You don't understand what MUST means.

I don't doubt that he knows what it means, but I agree he's using
it oddly, which has given me problems in reviewing the spec
all along:

  keep conformance objective (detailed review of section 1.
Introduction)
  From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
  Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:24:25 -0500

  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Aug/1187.html


We have a RAISED issue in this area...

  ISSUE-61 conformance-language RAISED
  Conformance depends on author's intent
  http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/61

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