- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:15:09 -0400
- To: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@icl.com>
- CC: "'John Cowan'" <cowan@locke.ccil.org>, xml-editor@w3.org, xml-dev@xml.org, w3t-comm@w3.org
Kay Michael wrote: > E62, which requires the separator in Names and NMTOKENS to be a single space > rather than any sequence of whitespace characters, looks like a rather major > incompatibility to me! The change is in fact a subtle one: it affects only the *value* of an attribute, which is what you have after the attribute-normalization process described in clause 3.3.3 is performed. (Note that 3.3.3 has been clarified by E24 and E61.) Consequently, although <element magic="foo bar"/> where "magic" is of type ENTITIES, IDREFS, or NMTOKENS, will still work (and return a value of "foo bar"), under E62 it is invalid to say: <element magic="foo 			bar"/> Of course it is still well-formed. Does anyone seriously think that the second example ought to be valid? -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)
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