RE: attribute-value-selector-004.xht not well formed from Sylvain Galineau on 2009-03-11 (public-css-testsuite@w3.org from March 2009)

From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:13:48 -0700
To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, "public-css-testsuite@w3.org" <public-css-testsuite@w3.org>
Message-ID: <5D97C7EB4695104AB6345E56FE356B19408A940DA7@NA-EXMSG-C125.redmond.corp.microsoft>

> The logic behind the test is this: the selector [1BadAttr] is incorrect
> because the digit "1" is not allowed to occur in that position. An im-
> plementation that fails to detect this error will most likely success-
> fully match the selector against an element with an 1BadAttr attribute.
> Given a document with such an element, such an implementation will fail
> the test, while others won't. So this is a perfectly sound test.

Bjoern, the attribute prevents the document from rendering in that format. It will render in HTML but will still be invalid so we won't get out of the invalid markup state by changing format.

Received on Wednesday, 11 March 2009 23:14:37 UTC