- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 06:13:46 +0200
- To: www-html-editor@w3.org
Dear HTML Working Group, Appendix C.5 of the XHTML 1.0 Second Edition Recommendation states: [...] Avoid line breaks and multiple white space characters within attribute values. [...] It is not clear to me what this refers to. What is a "white space character" in this context? It seems that one can choose from the definition in XML 1.0, XML 1.1, Unicode or one of the definitions in HTML 4.01 and further differentiate between white-space characters in the source code and white-space as character references and even further differentiate between the white-space pre and post attribute value normalization as defined in the XML Recommendations. Could you, in order to remove this confusion, please provide an exact algorithm that software could use to determine whether a document meets that constraint? Could you also please clarify what the exact difference between HTML and XHTML is in this regard? This seems to be a more general consideration for either language and thus misplaced in Appendix C. regards.
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