Re: Error: missing quote mark for attribute value from Bjoern Hoehrmann on 2003-02-18 (html-tidy@w3.org from January to March 2003)

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 03:49:19 +0100
To: Charles Reitzel <creitzel@rcn.com>
Cc: <html-tidy@w3.org>
Message-ID: <3e7197c7.185050318@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>

* Charles Reitzel wrote:
>I would suggest escaping the angle brackets and quotes (&lt; &gt; &quot;) 
>for XML embedded within attribute values.  Although in a pure XML parser, 
>this should not be necessary.  In an SGML-aware parser it is.

No, the opposite is true, <p title='<'>...</p> is allowed in SGML/HTML
but dissallowed in XML/XHTML.

Received on Monday, 17 February 2003 21:48:53 UTC