- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:41:27 -0500
- To: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- CC: HTMLWG Tracking WG <public-html@w3.org>
Ben Boyle wrote: >> How is that worth the complexity of having two different attribute >> tokenization rules that get toggled in mid-parse? > > It's funny (ironic) you say that, because from my point of view you > are proposing the complexity of two different attribute tokenization > rules that get toggled depending on the source serialisation. > > We must be from different worlds ~:) Henri is coming from the "I've had to actually write an HTML parser" world. Having two different sets of rules, A and B, with rules A being used to determine when to start or stop using rules B, is a major implementation pain. Especially when one really wants to use an off-the-shelf solution for B because implementing B correctly is not as easy as it seems (judging by the number of incorrect implementations I've seen). -Boris
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