- From: Martin J. Dürst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 15:31:38 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Holger Wahlen <wahlen@ph-cip.Uni-Koeln.DE>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Holger Wahlen wrote: > After my question about a passage of the SGML declaration in > the HTML 4 draft ... > > | ----------quote---------- > | NAMING LCNMSTRT "" > | UCNMSTRT "" > | LCNMCHAR ".-" -- ?include "~/_" for URLs? -- > | UCNMCHAR ".-" > | ----------/quote---------- > I'm thinking of values for attributes like HREF, SRC and so > on. With the present declaration, it's valid to have > <A HREF=file.html> > instead of > <A HREF="file.html">, > but the quotation marks can't be left out in the (frequent) > case that there's a directory change involved: > <A HREF="subdir/index.html"> > has to remain that way. No big deal, but it's quite easy to > forget the closing quotation mark, especially for longer > paths. The problem is that the more you add, the more difficult it will be to remember which are allowed and which not. URLs can contain quite a few special characters (but not others), and so on, and hardly anybody knows them all. Regards, Martin.
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