- From: poot <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 08:18:26 +0900 (JST)
- To: public-html-diffs@w3.org
hixie: Allow a few more unescaped &s. (whatwg r4960)
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.3982&r2=1.3983&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4959&to=4960
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--- Overview.html 2 Apr 2010 22:39:37 -0000 1.3982
+++ Overview.html 2 Apr 2010 23:18:10 -0000 1.3983
@@ -1752,14 +1752,14 @@
<pre class="bad"><a href="?original=1&copy=2">Compare</a></pre>
<p>To avoid this problem, all named character references are
- required to end with a semicolon, and any ampersands followed by
- letters are required to be escaped.</p>
+ required to end with a semicolon, and uses of named character
+ references without a semicolon are flagged as errors.</p>
<p>Thus, the correct way to express the above cases is as
follows:</p>
- <pre><a href="?hello=1&amp;world=2">Demo</a></pre>
- <pre><a href="?original=1&amp;copy=2">Compare</a></pre>
+ <pre><a href="?hello=1&world=2">Demo</a> <!-- &world is ok, since it's not a named character reference --></pre>
+ <pre><a href="?original=1&amp;copy=2">Compare</a> <!-- the & has to be escaped, since &copy <em>is</em> a named character reference --></pre>
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@@ -51805,9 +51805,12 @@
control characters other than <a href="#space-character" title="space character">space
characters</a>.<p>An <dfn id="syntax-ambiguous-ampersand" title="syntax-ambiguous-ampersand">ambiguous
ampersand</dfn> is a U+0026 AMPERSAND character (&) that is
- followed by some <a href="#syntax-text" title="syntax-text">text</a> other than a
- <a href="#space-character">space character</a>, a U+003C LESS-THAN SIGN character
- (<), or another U+0026 AMPERSAND character (&).<h4 id="cdata-sections"><span class="secno">8.1.5 </span>CDATA sections</h4><p class="XXX annotation"><b>Status: </b><i>Last call for comments</i><p><dfn id="syntax-cdata" title="syntax-cdata">CDATA sections</dfn> must start with
+ followed by one or more characters in the range U+0030 DIGIT ZERO
+ (0) to U+0039 DIGIT NINE (9), U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A to U+007A
+ LATIN SMALL LETTER Z, and U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A to U+005A
+ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z, followed by a U+003B SEMICOLON character
+ (;), where these characters do not match any of the names given in
+ the <a href="#named-character-references">named character references</a> section.<h4 id="cdata-sections"><span class="secno">8.1.5 </span>CDATA sections</h4><p class="XXX annotation"><b>Status: </b><i>Last call for comments</i><p><dfn id="syntax-cdata" title="syntax-cdata">CDATA sections</dfn> must start with
the character sequence U+003C LESS-THAN SIGN, U+0021 EXCLAMATION
MARK, U+005B LEFT SQUARE BRACKET, U+0043 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C,
U+0044 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D, U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A, U+0054
@@ -55172,12 +55175,14 @@
column of the <a href="#named-character-references">named character references</a> table (in a
<a href="#case-sensitive">case-sensitive</a> manner).</p>
- <p>If no match can be made, then this is a <a href="#parse-error">parse
- error</a>. No characters are consumed, and nothing is
- returned.</p>
-
- <p>If the last character matched is not a U+003B SEMICOLON
- character (;), there is a <a href="#parse-error">parse error</a>.</p>
+ <p>If no match can be made, then no characters are consumed, and
+ nothing is returned. In this case, if the characters after the
+ U+0026 AMPERSAND character (&) consist of a sequence of one or
+ more characters in the range U+0030 DIGIT ZERO (0) to U+0039 DIGIT
+ NINE (9), U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A to U+007A LATIN SMALL LETTER
+ Z, and U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A to U+005A LATIN CAPITAL
+ LETTER Z, followed by a U+003B SEMICOLON character (;), then this
+ is a <a href="#parse-error">parse error</a>.</p>
<p>If the character reference is being consumed <a href="#character-reference-in-attribute-value-state" title="character reference in attribute value state">as part of an
attribute</a>, and the last character matched is not a U+003B
@@ -55190,19 +55195,23 @@
(&) must be unconsumed, and nothing is returned.</p>
<!-- "=" added because of http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9207#c5 -->
- <p>Otherwise, return a character token for the character
- corresponding to the character reference name (as given by the
- second column of the <a href="#named-character-references">named character references</a>
- table).</p>
+ <p>Otherwise, a character reference is parsed. If the last
+ character matched is not a U+003B SEMICOLON character (;), there
+ is a <a href="#parse-error">parse error</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>Return a character token for the character corresponding to the
+ character reference name (as given by the second column of the
+ <a href="#named-character-references">named character references</a> table).</p>
<div class="example">
- <p>If the markup contains <code title="">I'm &notit; I tell
- you</code>, the character reference is parsed as "not", as in,
- <code title="">I'm ¬it; I tell you</code>. But if the markup
+ <p>If the markup contains (not in an attribute) the string <code title="">I'm &notit; I tell you</code>, the character
+ reference is parsed as "not", as in, <code title="">I'm ¬it;
+ I tell you</code> (and this is a parse error). But if the markup
was <code title="">I'm &notin; I tell you</code>, the
character reference would be parsed as "notin;", resulting in
- <code title="">I'm ∉ I tell you</code>.</p>
+ <code title="">I'm ∉ I tell you</code> (and no parse
+ error).</p>
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