[Bug 22008] New: Make it clear that there are syntax differences, add one about id attribute

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22008

            Bug ID: 22008
           Summary: Make it clear that there are syntax differences, add
                    one about id attribute
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Windows NT
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 differences from HTML4
          Assignee: simonp@opera.com
          Reporter: jukka.k.korpela@kolumbus.fi
        QA Contact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-admin@w3.org,
                    public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org

At the start of clause “2 Syntax”, the statement “HTML defines an HTML syntax
that is compatible with HTML4 and XHTML1 documents published on the Web” should
be less absolute, e.g. the word “mostly” could be added before “compatible”. In
subclause 2.4, e.g. “Attributes have to be separated by at least one whitespace
character” means that some valid and existing HTML 4.01 documents are not valid
HTML5.

The following information should be added to subclause 2.4:

The id attribute syntax now allows any nonempty string that does not contain
space characters. This is much more liberal than the HTML 4 syntax, but on the
other hand it disallows spaces at the start and at the end (id=" foo " is valid
HTML 4 but not valid HTML5).

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Received on Saturday, 11 May 2013 09:25:19 UTC