Next message: Gunnar Vestergaard: "Wrongful bug report"
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:26:23 +0100 (BST)
From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
To: Gunnar Vestergaard <user1975@worldonline.dk>
cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0106131923410.11615-100000@phaestos.ee.surrey.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Bug when interpreting attribute values
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Gunnar Vestergaard wrote:
> I have chosen not to subscribe to this list. I just want to convey to
> you an issue regarding the W3C HTML Validator:
>
> It may be called a bug, but I am not sure. When validating the fragment
> <img src=/grafik/layout/read_more.gif alt="Read more">
>
> the Validator reports an error: "an attribute value must be quoted if
> it contains any character other than letters (A-Za-z), digits,
> hyphens, and periods; use quotes if in doubt"
>
> The underscore is an issue here.
The slashes aren't?
L.
> But the HTML spec
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.2 clearly
> states that underscores are allowed without placing quotation marks.
> Surely, I will place quotation marks around this URI, but I believe
> there is a conflict here.
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