Attribute values

• From: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>
• Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:39:04 -0400
• To: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>
• Cc: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>, "public-microxml@w3.org" <public-microxml@w3.org>
• Message-Id: <A4F5FD80-9171-4AD8-BBE6-20BAE6E7BF84@muzmo.com>

I noticed that attribute values are defined thus...

attributeValue ::= '"' ((dataChar - '"') | charRef)* '"'
                  | "'" ((dataChar - "'") | charRef)* "'"

So, attributes may take the form foo="bar" or foo='bar' but not foo=bar

I further note that this definition does not distinguish between strings and tokens, by which I mean those sequences which contain spaces and those which don't.  

It seems that data types are not in scope for uXML, but I think that it could still be helpful to distinguish among strings and tokens, so as to allow foo=bar as a legitimate form of attribute value assignation.

Frankly, I would like to see data types baked into XML, by way of a corrigendum if necessary, but that is another discussion. 

Murray

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