- From: Kornel <kornel@geekhood.net>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 12:21:32 +0100
- To: "Simon Pieters" <simonp@opera.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On 2 Jun 2009, at 11:22, Simon Pieters wrote: >>> > Supporting both '&' and ';' seems like a exercise in bug creation. >>> > Parsing URIs is hard enough to do right as it is without making >>> things >>> > even more complicated and adding even more edge cases. >>> >>> But that's exactly what you are doing, except here it applies to >>> parsing >>> href attributes, not URIs. >> >> No, no change to the parsing rules was involved here. > > Writing HTML documents seems to make this valid: > > <a href="©="> > > and claims that the attribute value contains just text and no > character references (since character references end with ";"). > > Yet, Parsing HTML documents interprets the above the same as <a > href="©=">, as far as I can tell. Indeed. I've incorrectly remembered that semicolon in attributes is required, while in reality it's more complicated than that. Here's previous discussion and a test case: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-June/011931.html -- regards, Kornel
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