- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:09:10 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Eli Friedman <sharparrow1@yahoo.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Eli Friedman wrote: > > According to the example in the latest draft of CSS2.1, unterminated > string literals appear to be allowed (a "parsing error", but still > parsed as a string.) Is this correct, and if it is, does section 4.1.1 > need to be updated to reflect that? They are not allowed. They actually cause the entire declaration to be dropped. It's possible 4.1.1 needs to have a new token added for "bogus string" or some such, but my understanding is that 4.1.1 describes the valid syntax, not the syntax from the parser's point of view. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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