Re: Suggested bug fix: Ignore line breaks in URL attributes from Dave Raggett on 2000-01-13 (html-tidy@w3.org from January to March 2000)

From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 19:49:20 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
To: Randy Waki <rwaki@flipdog.com>
cc: html-tidy@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.10.10001131946550.836-100000@OEMCOMPUTER>

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Randy Waki wrote:

> If a quoted URL attribute value (e.g., href in <a> elements)
> contains a line break, 13-Jan-2000 Tidy changes the line break
> to a space while IE and Netscape discard the line break.  This
> can result in a broken link in the tidied document.

Thanks for the input and the patch. The SGML and XML specs
require the newline to be interpreted as a space, but then
that's just one more example where the browsers depart from
theory. I guess this fix is ok if limited to href and src.

Regards,

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