- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:18:14 +0000 (UTC)
- To: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Cc: hsivonen@iki.fi, public-html@w3.org, www-math@w3.org
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, David Carlisle wrote: > > I wrote > > > HTML 5 appears to follow XML 1.1 in banning these control characters > > as character data > > I see I was wrong there, and html5 defines > > U+000B LINE TABULATION, U+000C FORM FEED (FF), > > as space characters thus _does_ allow them as character data. > > However I don't see anywhere any warning that these can't be serialised > in an XML 1.0 serialisation, There is no such generic advice so far, though this section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#innerhtml1 ...provides such advice in the context of innerHTML. The short answer is that in some cases (quite a number of them in fact) you just can't serialise the document as XML 1.0. > nor advice on how they are supposed to be rendered. That will come in the rendering section in due course. In CSS rendering engines, CSS covers this. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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