Re: Parsing: "<" inside tags

On Wed, 6 May 2009, Simon Pieters wrote:
> 
> Maybe the spec should make "<" in unquoted attributes and in attribute 
> names a syntax error in order to catch authoring mistakes like the 
> following:
> 
>   <div class=foo<p>bar</p></div>
> 
> 
>   <div class=foo
>    <p>bar</p>
>   </div>
> 
> (Validators would issue other errors for those but they are not so 
> helpful for identifying the actual mistake.)

It's an unfortunate error, but because of the upcoming doc="" attribute I 
don't think we want to require < to be escaped in attributes.


> See http://bugzilla.validator.nu/show_bug.cgi?id=504

Shouldn't the first case say the <p attribute is invalid, thus pointing 
right to the location of the error?

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Received on Wednesday, 6 May 2009 18:49:39 UTC